Warning: evdev changes - no auto-grabs anymore

Steven J Newbury steve at snewbury.org.uk
Fri Aug 15 01:33:36 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:51 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:54:58AM +0930, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:50:09PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > > Sounds good, but unfortunately, this change seems to cause trouble of
> > > > its own, namely that hitting ctrl-C terminates the X server - not very
> > > > useful. :) It looks like all the input intended for the X server also
> > > > goes to a VT (I can briefly see fragments of what I typed before hitting
> > > > ctrl-C until the server restarts), and that's probably how the ctrl-C
> > > > results in a SIGTERM to the X server.
> > > 
I notice it's been reverted now.  The obvious solution would have been
to put "GrabDevice" in the fdi file.  It's what I did locally.




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