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Hi,
Sorry for my previous mis-posting, there appears to be some problem with gmane
interface.
There exist considerable number of hot-pluggable USB devices with helper buttons
(cameras and headsets being the more prominent examples). The buttons in
question are recognized by evdev as USB HID inter
Peter Hutterer who-t.net> writes:
> >
> > 1. Buttons have session global effect and there's no easy, nor stable way
> > to limit their effect to a particular device.
>
> I don't understand this bit. can you paraphrase?
For example, if I press a button on a headset and say it maps to
"XF86Volum
>
> use XI2 and deviceid in events, then you know that the volume up was hit on
> this particular device. clients may not make use of this right now, but the
> infrastructure is in place.
Thanks a lot.
This is exactly the piece of information I was looking for.
>
>
> file this as bug and atta
