Hi there! My first post on this list...
I am currently trying to create a networked multi-user collaboration environment, based on Peter Hutterers great MPX (for the multi user part) and x11vnc (networking) as part of a university project. So far i've got MPX up and running, the question i now have is: How can i make x11vnc create a new Master Device (or Slave Device) for each connected client and route this client's input events to the corresponding master device? So far i see two possibilities: (1) Master Devices created on the fly: I know it's possible to create MD's via xinput, but i've got no idea how to get application-generated events (from x11vnc) to a specific master device. Via XTEST maybe? But according to http://www.x.org/docs/Xext/xtestlib.pdf there's no way to address a specific master device. I've read the Xlib docs as well and found nothing on that. The Xinput docs weren't fruitful neither... But I'm sure there must be a way to do it in userspace? (2) Fake Slave Devices If there's no way of doing things like in (1), i would have to rely on faking slave devices and attach these to master devices. As a slave device represents a physical device, i think there's no way of creating one via xinput. So i thought about sth. like creating a SD with the uinput kernel driver and making it known to hal. Or maybe via the evdev driver and pointing it to a device file that gets fed from x11vnc? Everything not soo nice, i _really_ think it must be possible to do it without root privileges, somehow like (1)... Thank you all very much for any help on this, Christian -- what is, is; what is not is possible.
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