Re: programmatically enabling xinput device

[Lars Damerow <lars pixar com>]

Thanks Owen, that was all the information I needed.

cheers,
lars

>From Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>, Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:34:19AM -0400:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 23:08, Lars Damerow wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've written a gtk program that accepts pressure data from a stylus XInput
> > device, but it requires that the user manually sets the stylus device to
> > 'screen' on the GTK Input Dialog.
> > 
> > Is there a way that I can set the device mapping programmatically, so that the
> > user never needs to use the Input dialog?
> 
> The input dialog works entirely in terms of public GDK API, so anything
> it does, you can do to:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Input-Devices.html
> 
> (Even programs that use GtkInputDialog typically use these functions to
> save the state of the user's settings across sessions .... see the GIMP
> or gsumi for examples of doing this.)
> 
> Regards,
> 						Owen
> 

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