hugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel) (04/09/91)
I am working on a new keyboard for Sun's, its a chording keyboard (one
hand, but it comes with both left and right hand keyboards so you can go
really fast). The current version plugs into a serial port, and I have
taken it's output and fed it into XNeWS.
My problem is that when I generate a keyboard event via a NeWS event,
the X side of XNeWS does not see the event. The events I generate are
exactly the same as the ones that are generated by the server except for
the undcoumented /Synthetic key/value which is readonly anyway.
It seems silly for my client to sell keyboards that work for only some
of the windows on the screen! So if anyone out there knows how to fix
this the right way please enlighten us all.
||ugh Daniel
hugh@toad.com Grasshopper Group, +1 415/668-5998
hugh@xanadu.com 210 Clayton St. San Francisco CA94117hopkins@sun.com (Don Hopkins) (04/10/91)
In article <16956@hoptoad.uucp> hugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel) writes: I am working on a new keyboard for Sun's, its a chording keyboard (one hand, but it comes with both left and right hand keyboards so you can go really fast). The current version plugs into a serial port, and I have taken it's output and fed it into XNeWS. My problem is that when I generate a keyboard event via a NeWS event, the X side of XNeWS does not see the event. The events I generate are exactly the same as the ones that are generated by the server except for the undcoumented /Synthetic key/value which is readonly anyway. It seems silly for my client to sell keyboards that work for only some of the windows on the screen! So if anyone out there knows how to fix this the right way please enlighten us all. ||ugh Daniel hugh@toad.com Grasshopper Group, +1 415/668-5998 hugh@xanadu.com 210 Clayton St. San Francisco CA94117 Try starting the xnews server with the -defeateventsecurity flag, which I hope does just what you want: [ -defeateventsecurity ] This tells xnews to disable the security feature that detects synthetically created events. Any event dis- tributed by the server, even if it was created by a client program, will have a synthetic field with value false. NeWS events will see this as a false value in the /Synthetic field of events. X11 events will all lack the synthetic bit in the type field. This flag allows clients which need to generated synthetic events, such as the journalling demo, to run correctly. Running the X11/NeWS server with this option enabled exposes your workstation to many security risks. It is not recommended that this option be enabled except when explicitly needed. This was from "xnews" server manual page (as opposed to "openwin" shell script manual page). -Don