On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>wrote:
> Some of you may remember the wdaemon tool. > http://jake.ruivo.org/~aris/wdaemon/ > > Aris wrote it ages ago to enable hotplugging of input devices, back when > the > server didn't actually support hotplugged input devices. It simply emulated > a uinput-based device that looked like a wacom tablet and monitored the > real > devices. The server was configured to hook onto the wdaemon-generated > device > (which was there as long as wdaemon was running) and whenever the actual > device appeared, wdaemon would forward the events through the uinput > device. > To the X server it appeared as if the device was always present. > > Now, since server 1.4 we support input device hotplugging and you know > we've > made great strives to support hotplugging dependent tools, etc. So the need > for wdaemon isn't there anymore. > > Except - run-time configuration is still problematic. We don't have a > integrated tool to re-apply configuration after unplugging, so those of you > who use xsetwacom/xinput to apply configuration to their tablets know that > the config has to be reapplied whenever the tablet was unplugged. In the > extreme > case, that means after every KVM switch if you use such a device. > > wdaemon can work around this issue by essentially _disabling_ hotplugging. > Thus instead of the default setup, the X server is set up to ignore > physical > wacom devices and instead look for wdaemon's uinput devices. Since they > never disappear, runtime configuration stays the same even when the > physical > tablet is unplugged. > > I've taken Aris repository (with his permission) and converted it to git > plus a few features and cleanups on top. Is this something we want on > linuxwacom.sf.net? I'd rather have it live on linuxwacom.sf.net than in > yet > another private repository. > > Comments? > I definitely like to see it being maintained here. There are many users still using wdaemon with the old linuxwacom package. If you've granted it a new life with xf86-input-wacom, why not let it live with us :)? Ping
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