[debian] howto: rebuilding sgt-puzzles for the FR

Neil Jerram neiljerram at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 15:53:00 CET 2010


On 21 December 2010 12:33, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote:
> Neil Jerram <neiljerram at gmail.com> writes:
>> Surely the optimal solution would be runtime auto-detection?  Does
>> udev provide sufficient information to infer that there is a
>> touchscreen and no keyboard?
>
> udev does not know what X server your sgt-puzzles is connected
> to. It's probably better to ask X about the input devices?

Ah yes, of course, good point.  So assuming the X API is rich enough
to provide that information, I'd say that's the ideal solution.  Of
course it would also be possible to provide a command line option to
override the auto-detection.

         Neil



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