How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell
> > them which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file?
> >
> > ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux.
>
> Try it. If it works let us know. :)
>
> Very unlikely.

Why?

> Nowadays all X display managers supply multiseat. So this might not
> be too much of a problem if the mouse and keyboard events are kept
> separated at the kernel level.

Keyboard data would not be MUX'd if you didn't use kbdmux. Unless you 
use moused mouse events wouldn't be MUX'd.

I haven't tried it since I lack the hardware ATM but.. why not? :)

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