[ohm] monitoring INPUT state

[Koen Kooi]

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Rob Taylor schreef:
> Gross, Mark wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ohm-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:ohm-devel-
>>> bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Nils Faerber
>>> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:28 AM
>>> To: ohm-devel
>>> Subject: Re: [ohm] monitoring INPUT state
>>>
>>> Gross, Mark schrieb:
>>> [...]
>>>>> For the idle usecase say... as a third source you could have a
>>>>> deliberate "unidle" source, i.e. an application could want to
>> trogger
>>>>> the idle "watchdog" manually. This would be a third source (i.e.
>> X11,
>>>>> input/event/*, manual unidle). This could be useful for applications
>>>>> that want to prevent the system to perform idle actions - not very
>>>>> brilliant example since it could also disable the idle timer but
>> then
>>>> it
>>>>> could clash with the service that sets that values (which should be
>>>>> session settings?).
>>>> This sounds scary to me.  We don't want to make the processor more
>> busy
>>>> when trying to save battery life buy running a busy loop daemon for
>>>> kicking a watch dog looking for inactivity at the UI level.
>>>>
>>>> I like the idea of an inactivity watch dog facility.  It would help
>> to
>>>> understand the different classes of subsystem inactivity one needs a
>>>> watchdog on.  From this thread I see we only have xorg inactivity.
>>> And this xorg idle is bound to input devices which is IMHO pretty weak.
>> It would be good to drill down on what's weak about it, and try to get
>> into a requirement definition mind set for the sub system's Ohm depends
>> on.
> 
> I've pretty much decided on using xorg idle for the default idle plugin
> - with the next release of xorg, X will listen to all input devices
> advertised in HAL.

Xorg is of course installed on all headless systems, right?
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