[PATCH wayland] protocol: Add a name event to give seat name

Rob Bradford robert.bradford at intel.com
Fri May 31 10:08:23 PDT 2013


From: Rob Bradford <rob at linux.intel.com>

This provides the ability for a client to differentiate events from
different seats in a multiple seat environment.
---
 protocol/wayland.xml | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml
index f3ba296..6302271 100644
--- a/protocol/wayland.xml
+++ b/protocol/wayland.xml
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@
     </request>
    </interface>
 
-  <interface name="wl_seat" version="1">
+  <interface name="wl_seat" version="2">
     <description summary="group of input devices">
       A seat is a group of keyboards, pointer and touch devices. This
       object is published as a global during start up, or when such a
@@ -1199,6 +1199,15 @@
       <arg name="capabilities" type="uint"/>
     </event>
 
+    <event name="name">
+      <description summary="unique identifier for this seat">
+	In a multiseat configuration this can be used by the client to help
+	identify which physical devices the seat represents. Based on
+	the seat configuration used by the compositor.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="name" type="string"/>
+    </event>
+
     <request name="get_pointer">
       <description summary="return pointer object">
         The ID provided will be initialized to the wl_pointer interface
-- 
1.8.1.4



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