Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] another feature

[Steffen S. <s.s...@ph...>]

James A Simmons wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Steffen Seeger wrote:
> 
> > James Simmons wrote:
> > >
> > > > Another desirable feature to add to the web page is per VC keymaps.  i
> > > > remember chaning my keymap for dosemu, and screwing over some of my other
> > > > apps on other VC's because of it.
> > >
> > > I though about that. The question is should this be per keyboard or per
> > > VC.
> >
> > It could be per keyboard, or per input group (focus).
> 
> I assume a focus is a head.

In KGI terminology "focus" refers to a collection of physical input
device
drivers or event sources. E.g mice, graphic tablets, user specific
applications, etc. All events generated by these event sources will
be reported to the same event sink (input device). Currently this may
be the input device of a terminal emulator. Later a /dev/event mapper
will be added.

A "head" (or workplace as I prefer) in KGI terminology refers to a focus
and all output devices --simply speaking-- this focus may be focused on.

A "workplace" may consist of several heads.

Why have I split this? Because this avoids unneccessary constraints
on what virtual terminal is displayed on what display and each
KGI-head may appear to be a multidisplay workplace.

			Steffen

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