Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-26 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:16:31PM -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > On Fri, 2007-26-10 at 12:44 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > A 'filter' cares about a key or two, and might even want to remove it > > from the stream, rfkill is a good example. > > The patch introduces two different features that w

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-26 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 10/26/07, Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:37:34AM -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the > > > text console. The current sol

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-26 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Fri, 2007-26-10 at 12:44 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > A 'filter' cares about a key or two, and might even want to remove it > from the stream, rfkill is a good example. The patch introduces two different features that work nicely together but, by no means have to be used together. 1) set

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-26 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:37:34AM -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the > > text console. The current solution sucks for things like rfkill. > > > > I'm not convinced tha

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-24 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the > text console. The current solution sucks for things like rfkill. > > I'm not convinced that Ryan's fix is any better, but just saying that X > should open the co

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-24 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:33:08PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Ryan Lortie wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 14:10 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > No, rfkill want to see keypresses, period. It does not care if there > > > are other applications also seeing the sam

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-23 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Ryan Lortie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 14:10 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > No, rfkill want to see keypresses, period. It does not care if there > > are other applications also seeing the same keypresses, it just does > > not want keypresses stolen from it. > > R

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 14:10 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > No, rfkill want to see keypresses, period. It does not care if there > are other applications also seeing the same keypresses, it just does > not want keypresses stolen from it. Right. This is exactly the problem. The current grab API e

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-23 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 10/23/07, Ryan Lortie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 09:21 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Priority/filter idea is different matter. I don't think it is a giood > > solution. There will always be an "arms race", new applications would > > like to get in front of the queue a

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 09:21 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Priority/filter idea is different matter. I don't think it is a giood > solution. There will always be an "arms race", new applications would > like to get in front of the queue all the time and it will be hard to > manage. X should just k

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-10-23 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Ryan, On 9/28/07, Ryan Lortie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I have been working on a more flexible system for blocking the delivery > of input events to other agents in the system. > > My approach is basically summed up as follows: > > - split the current purpose of input_handle in

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-09-28 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Tue, 2007-03-07 at 12:45 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > We just want a more flexible approach then what we are already using[0]. > > I'll see about writing something up when I get back to my computers[1] > and have things set back up[2]. > > Zephaniah E. Hull. > > 0: EVIOCGRAB. > 1: The ni

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-07-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > Not really, what happens when the user presses alt-F1? Well, if the console is switched to medium raw or raw mode, nothing happens. > A way to tell the kernel that events from a given input device should > not go to the console

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-07-03 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:20:44PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:40:31AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:35:05AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:23, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-07-02 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:40:31AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:35:05AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:23, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:19:59AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > > > Like I said I wou

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-06-11 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:35:05AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:23, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:19:59AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > Like I said I would love if xf86-input-evdev did not grab the > > > device at all. > > > > We

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-06-11 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:23, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:19:59AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Like I said I would love if xf86-input-evdev did not grab the > > device at all. > > We have to disable the legacy input handlers somehow, not doing so > simply isn't

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-06-11 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
*googles briefly for rfkill-input, looks for his brown paper bag* On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:19:59AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:12, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:07:13AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Hi Zephaniah, > > > > > > On Satu

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-06-11 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:12, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:07:13AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi Zephaniah, > > > > On Saturday 09 June 2007 04:48, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > EVIOCGRAB is nice and very useful, however over time I've gotten > > > multiple reques

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-06-11 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:07:13AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Zephaniah, > > On Saturday 09 June 2007 04:48, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > EVIOCGRAB is nice and very useful, however over time I've gotten > > multiple requests to make it possible for applications to get events > > straight f

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-06-11 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Zephaniah, On Saturday 09 June 2007 04:48, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > EVIOCGRAB is nice and very useful, however over time I've gotten > multiple requests to make it possible for applications to get events > straight from the event device while xf86-input-evdev is getting events > from the same