Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

From: Mattia Dongili
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 14:01:46 EST


On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:34:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
[...]
> > Do you believe it could be a user-space daemon or what?
>
> Yes, what prevents userspace daemon watching /dev/input/event* to
> provide this functionality?

hmmm... EVIOCGRAB for example? the synaptics Xorg driver is using
it, maybe others too?
I don't want to start a new discussion about it, just provide an answer
to your question :)

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mattia
:wq!
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