Re: for comment: multi-keyboard patch

Stephen Lee (sl14@cornell.edu)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:34:22 +0900


>At present input from all keyboards goes to the current
>foreground VC. Ultimately it would be nice to be able to
>bind a keyboard, screen and mouse together into a "console"
>which would have its own set of VCs.

Instead of making a "console" to own a VC, I'd suggest that

(a) each input device have one "associated" VC where inputs would be sent,
(b) each VC have a list of screen to output to.
(c) each VC have a list of input devices currently attached to it to allow
saving keyboard/button state.

I think this is more flexible than the "binding into console" idea, as we
can have e.g. headless setups or inputless (monitor only) VCs. It also
allows for new kinds of input devices.

Stephen

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