On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:34:35 -0500 Jason Ekstrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Fernando Herrera <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Adds a --no-input option to the rpi backend so weston can be started > > without any input device attached. This is useful for display boxes > > without any keyboard/mouse attached > > > > Ok, maybe this is a silly question, but why are we requiring input devices > on start-up at all? I agree that a --no-input option that explicitly > disables input is potentially useful, but shouldn't weston be able to start > up without input devices anyway? Also, It might be a good idea to think > about making such an option global. I don't think making it global would > be easy right now, but it's worth thinking about. That's because for native backends like DRM, if you had no input devices at start-up because of, say, permissions error like forgetting to set suid-root on weston-launch, you cannot exit Weston or switch VTs at all. It's simply a fail-safe, so that on a configuration error, you are guaranteed to exit Weston and restore the VT. We could have a global option indeed to allow starting without any input devices, when explicitly wanted. I have more comments about this patch, I think it should be done a little differently. More about that later. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
