role of addon-input?

[pgf at laptop.org]

matthew wrote:
 > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:16:54AM -0400, pgf at laptop.org wrote:
 > 
 > > addon-input has support for generating dbus "ButtonPressed"
 > > events for a long built-in list of "special" (mostly multimedia)
 > > keyboard buttons.  but if those buttons are generated by an input
 > > device which is eventually handled by an X server, then they'll
 > > never be seen, since the X server (its evdev driver?) uses
 > > EVIOCGRAB on its input devices, effectively preventing anyone
 > > else from eavesdropping on the device.  in other words, for many
 > > of the input devices addon-input monitors, addon-input will never
 > > receive any input events to handle.
 > 
 > evdev will only do EVIOCGRAB if you pass the GrabDevice argument. Since 
 > it breaks things, it's recommended that you not do that.
 > 

there's no GrabDevice arg in any xorg.conf i've looked at, nor is
it mentioned in my server logs nor in my evdev man pages.

ah.  but googling tells me this a pretty recent option addition. 
i guess folks will have to wait a bit before making use of your
recommendation.

thanks...

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org