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

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