[Xorg] XInput Hotplug Additions

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Aug 2 17:19:37 PDT 2004


Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> The idea is that the arguments given to XAddInputDevice() corresponds to 
> the options you can give in an xorg.conf InputDevice section, e.g.
> 
>     Section "InputDevice"
>             Identifier  "Mouse0"
>             Driver      "mouse"
>             Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>             Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>             Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     EndSection
> 
> could be configured at runtime from an X client as
> 
>     XDeviceOption options[] = {
>       { "Protocol", "IMPS/2" },
>       { "Device", "/dev/input/mice" },
>       { "ZAxisMapping", "4 5" },
>     };
> 
>     XAddInputDevice(dpy, "Mouse0", "mouse", options, 3);

So this extension is only usable by the Xorg server and other X servers
with their own configuration methods will not be able to use it?

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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