Modifying olpc-kbdshim for simplicity

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> peter wrote:
>  > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>  > > james wrote:
>  > >  > With the 20100107 kernel power management seems to work just
>  > >  > fine in f11 xo-1 os10.  I am working on a project called
>  > >  > Deborah which is a debian system with lxde for the xo-1
>  > >  > borrowing heavily from f11 for the xo-1.  It's coming along
>  > >  > nicely and I think it works pretty well but I still have to
>  > >  > get power management working properly.  I'm using powerd which
>  > >  > relies on olpc-kbdshim to report keyboard and trackpad
>  > >  > inactivity.  Unfortunately kbdshim also does alot of other
>  > >  > things that I don't want or need.  The volume and brightness
>  > >  > keys already work fine without kbdshim, for instance.  I want
>  > >  > to use kbdshim but disable all of its functions execpt
>  > >  > reporting keyboard and trackpad inactivity.  Is there an easy
>  > >  > way to do this.  I don't know enough yet about how kbdshim
>  > >  > works to figure this out.  Great work, I'm very impressed with
>  > >  > f11 for the xo-1.
>  > >
>  > > the volume and brightness functions can be disabled or changed
>  > > simply by specifying a different (or by not specifying a) script
>  > > to be run -- see the usage message, and modify the hal startup
>  > > file accordingly.  other than those features, i think the rest (i.e.,
>  > > grab keys, etc) is all-or-nothing (without modifying the source, of
>  > > course).
>  >
>  > Why can't all of that be done through the existing xinput layer which
>  > already deals with console inactivity and special keys etc?
>
> perhaps some of it can.  kbdshim began as a mechanism for
> implementing the grab keys -- to convert keypresses into scroll
> events.  i don't know that xinput can do that -- perhaps.
>
> but i also had the goal of having the volume and brightness keys,
> as well as inactivity detection, work properly when X isn't
> running -- it annoys me that most people consider the console a
> second class environment.

I don't, for my job I basically live in one, but i think alot of it
can be done with evdev and friends which I believe works in the
console as well.

Peter