On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> <rant>
> It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could have
> been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd do is
> uncouple keyboard, mouse and video from each other. Why X has anything
> to do with keyboard or mouse is beyond me.

Perhaps because X was originally a means of having a graphical user interface 
to multiple machines over a network.  Which usualy involves a screen, keyboard, 
and mouse.

Each X window could be talking to a different computer.  It mattered which 
computer your keystrokes went to.

-- hendrik

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