Xinput patches

[Simon Thum]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> - I'd prefer a commandline-switch --by-type to trigger this, rather than
>>>   guessing from the name of the device.
>> Yeah, that's more extensible and more work - likely I'd have to revamp  
>> parsing. This change doesn't block that path, so this can be done when  
>> ambiguous cases show up.
> 
> no, this change should be done before we let the new notation in. otherwise it
> just gets too confusing. also, historically, commandline switches are to
> specify further options, not "magic" parsing of user-given parameters.
> 
> Sorry, but I'll leave the patch out for now until we have the --by-type
> support.
Problem is: some invokations (setcp, list-props) are in a loop. I didn't 
check why exactly this is so, but if it's an important use case then it 
becomes awkward to mix notations that way.

In any case, I can't do that anytime soon.

Cheers,

Simon