On Mon 2009-03-02 23:42:52, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > This virtual device can be used to tell user space about periods of time > when user didn't "touch" input devices (keyboards, mice, touchpads, joysticks, > etc). For now it supports only keyboard events. > > Notification is done through simple select/poll + ioctl interface. > > It can be used to implement screen savers, automatic suspend, > autoaway/autodisconnect (e.g. in instant messangers) without > any help from X server and its overhead (context switches). I don't think this is good interface; what if you have more than one seat? And without mouse handling it is useless anyway, so.... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
