nanogui: X11 compatibility and pseudo-keyboards.
Subject:
Re: X11 compatibility and pseudo-keyboards.
From:
Gaillard Pierre-Olivier ####@####.####
Date:
7 Dec 1999 23:02:09 -0000
Message-Id: <384D90E8.BC14BF92@free.fr>
> What do you mean, writing to the console. You mean writing to the
> console keyboard? Or reading from it? Or are you talking about
> writing character codes to the console display?
>
They open the tty used by the X server and write scancodes to it so
that
the X server uses them as if they had been typed on keyboard. At least
that is what I understood from the program.
>
> I'm not following this remark in the context of Microwindows graphics
> engine. Please explain.
What I meant was that I found the above described solution crude and I
would have liked something like an abstract pseudo-keyboard feeding the
Nano-X server
and accepting scancodes from miscellaneous programs (being able to
change dynamically).
Thus the flow of scancodes would be as follow :
keyboard emulation program 1 keyboard emulation program 2
| /
| scancodes / scancodes
| /
pseudo-keyboard server
|
| scancodes
|
Nano-X server
So you could easily switch from one keyboard emulation program to
another,
use another keyboard over PPP and so on.
But maybe this is overcomplicated.
Also, I had overlooked the concern about namespace conflicts for X11.
This is not surprising since I only intend to use client-server Nano-X
(yes I am biased) and the problem does not occur in such a case (server
bound with real Xlib, client bound with fake Xlib).
I would really like to see what mister Ross has done about Xlib and what
Screenmedia is planning for keyboard emulation (graffitti-like or
something else ?). I'd love to help.
P.O. Gaillard
