Blog series on XInput 2 [LWN.net]

Blog series on XInput 2

Posted Jun 18, 2009 23:09 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Looks nice. But when is it going to be used by GNOME and KDE?

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Posted Jun 18, 2009 23:09 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (5 responses)

Also, does XI2 support keyboards with more than 256 keys?

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Posted Jun 19, 2009 0:48 UTC (Fri) by whot (subscriber, #50317) [Link]

yes. XI2 supports 32 bit keycodes.

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Posted Jun 19, 2009 0:55 UTC (Fri) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]

I hope so. As far as I observed (I may be wrong) there are two ways to overcome silly limitations, adding extensions and bumping the version to X12: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12 . I hope I live to see this second option used also.

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Posted Jun 19, 2009 7:03 UTC (Fri) by eduperez (guest, #11232) [Link] (2 responses)

More than 256 keys!? Just for curiosity, do those exist?

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Posted Jun 19, 2009 8:07 UTC (Fri) by arekm (guest, #4846) [Link]

I have keyboard with less than 256 keys but some keys produce keycodes bigger than value 256, so xi2 is the only sane (remapping is instane) way to handle them.

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Posted Jun 19, 2009 11:43 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Yes, they do exist.

However, the common problem is that a lot of quite common keyboards have additional keys which emit keycodes>256.