On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:13:42PM +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: > Hi, this is a "wish" i had for the driver that I'd consider very useful. > I've recently written a simple bash script which scripts the > functionality of the button, an example the button on the wheel changes > which keycodes the wheel sumit and hence which function in cotrnols. > > If anyone is interested I'd like to share it. > > The problem is, where even that is kind of cumbersome, more complicated > interaction because a real pain in the arse. Since the driver will only > emit keyboard events, everything will go through X. > > Right now, I'm using my WM (openbox), to respond to the global keys to > control the behaviour. For example the touchring button emits Ctrl + > Shift + Alt + T which openbox catches and runs my script on, to change > the mappings and give feedback through osd_cat. > > And whereas I could do the same for all buttons and find the most exotic > keybindings to never collide with running programs, it becomes quite > cumbersom to continuously remap them, map the bindings in Openbox and so > on. The amount of required keybindings which are used NOWHERE else on > the system grows exponentially with functionality. > > All these problems would immediately be solved if, instead of > keybindings, actual programs could be bound to keys. It would greatly > simply certain methods and give us a great flexibilty to write our own > complex behaviour without any effort.
it'd solve this particular problem but open up a new can of worms. Two things I can think of right now: - security: driver runs as root, so you'd need user management - configuration: once you allow to run programs, people will want to start passing arguments, parameters, etc. besides, AFAICT it doesn't really _solve_ your problem. From what I gather, what you want is a application-specific key binding. The ideal way of integrating is to have a background daemon that talks to the WM to figure out which application is currently in focus and remaps the keys on the tablet on-the-fly. That is in fact much easier to write than any custom application loading in the driver. Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
