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xinput: use meaningful names for input proxy devices instead of generic "Forwarded input device" #1679

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taradiddles opened this Issue Jan 23, 2016 · 9 comments

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taradiddles commented Jan 23, 2016

Proxied input devices all show up as "Forwarded input device", so the only way to use xinput to list/set props is to use an id number.
Problem: it cana be really cumbersome to find out the corresponding id of a given device (requires comparing outputs of xinput list-props or plugging/unplugging the device).

Example of the virtual core pointer section of "xinput list" in dom0 with an external USB mouse and an external thinkpad keyboard (keyboard + trackpoint):

[...]
Forwarded input device id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
Forwarded input device id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
[...]

I always enable wheel emulation on the trackpoints so that I can quickly scroll vertically (a huge productivity boost btw). For that I need to issue a few "xinput set-props id ..." commands and thus need to find the trackpoint's id. But the output of "xinput list-props 14" and "xinput list-props 15" show almost the same stuff and doesn't show the devices' names.
The trackpoint exhibits a few values different than the mouse so that's a way to identify it and script xinput commands, but I guess there might be identical outputs with other devices and thus no way to find the id other than plugging/unplugging the device and see what id it gets( another problem then is that the ids are not consistent after a reboot).

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This requires protocol change in input proxy. There is partial support for protocol extensions, but unfortunately it wasn't completed... This means it will be probably deferred to some further Qubes release.
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This requires protocol change in input proxy. There is partial support for protocol extensions, but unfortunately it wasn't completed... This means it will be probably deferred to some further Qubes release.

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Pass original device name, then use it sanitized and prefixed with VM… 
… name

This requires protocol change.

Fixes QubesOS/qubes-issues#1679
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receiver: handle minor protocol changes gracefully 
Protocol is already designed to handle minor changes in device
capabilities info (bigger or smaller). Now implement handling of such
situation.

QubesOS/qubes-issues#1679
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Pass original device name, then use it sanitized and prefixed with VM… 
… name

This requires protocol change.

Fixes QubesOS/qubes-issues#1679
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receiver: handle minor protocol changes gracefully 
Protocol is already designed to handle minor changes in device
capabilities info (bigger or smaller). Now implement handling of such
situation.

QubesOS/qubes-issues#1679
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Pass original device name, then use it sanitized and prefixed with VM… 
… name

This requires protocol change.

Fixes QubesOS/qubes-issues#1679
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The package qubes-input-proxy-1.0.5-1.fc21 has been pushed to the r3.1 testing repository for the Fedora fc21 template.
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