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 interfaces, so in theory they are considered as "supported". In practice, however, there are 2 common problems: 1. Buttons have session global effect and there's no easy, nor stable way to limit their effect to a particular device. 2. Sometimes device buttons are recognized as "mice", rather than "keyboards" and there's no much one can do with "mouse" buttons out of Xorg box (assorted third party programs of varying breed and maintenance status notwithstanding). I tried to make some sense of the issue for myself, but it appears to be impossible to get through untold scores of various user complains on the inter-webs. :-) Can somebody point me at an information or discussions regarding the issues above? After all, those devices are abundant and appear to work just fine even on older windows xp, without any extraneous effort. It seems logical to me that USB buttons must represent a whole input device class on their own, with appropriate events defined. I suppose, it won't be a big deal to incorporate support for them into existing applications, because the need for such arrangement is long and widely recognized by anybody who tried to rely on such buttons on Linux. Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
