Hi, I believe Vu Ngoc San has just written a small daemon that does something similar for his modification of Christoph Karg's userland OLED app. for the Intuos4.. It switches the profiles, a modification he introduced, when changing app.s as in Gimp to Inkscape. I don't believe he has posted it yet.
Favux On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
