support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE breaks use by blind people

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Jan 8 16:33:09 PST 2013


Samuel Thibault, le Wed 09 Jan 2013 00:55:13 +0100, a écrit :
> Michal Suchanek, le Tue 08 Jan 2013 22:26:50 +0100, a écrit :
> > > Well, I hope I have made my point clear: the blind user case should
> > > get exactly the same behavior with the dummy video driver (without
> > > configuring anything else) as the 99%-standard user case, with other
> > > video drivers. I.e. a VT gets allocated, switched to, and keyboard/mouse
> > > events there go to the server.
> > 
> > And what's the point?
> > 
> > You don't have a screen so you don't see the VT switched.
> 
> But I *NEED* the VT to be able to choose whether keyboard/mouse events
> go to the server or to the linux console.

By switching into/out the VT, I mean.

Samuel


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