On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:27:23AM +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Peter Hutterer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > fwiw, there's no requirement for uniqueness in device names. It's quite > > common to have devices with the same name, many mouse/keyboard combos have > > two or more devices with the same name and so do many touchscreens. > This is interesting. So If I use xsetwacom with a shared name, who > gets the config?
no-one, xsetwacom will complain and require that you specify the ID instead :) > For user tho differentiate his/her devices this name is all they can > go by so for practical reasons the uniqueness is required at least for > wacom devices. of course, I didn't imply that shared names were useful, just that they're not impossible. > > for your specific task - the option we talked about (I think on IRC) to > > force tool types on the device is quite dependent on this feature. > > otherwise, you can't really have independent configuration. > > Well, some configuration can be applied with xsetwacom later but yes, > things that can only be set at load time do depend on this. ;) Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
