synaptics syndaemon 20ms polling loop

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 15:06 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:12:54PM -0600, orion at cora.nwra.com wrote:
> > I guess I was waiting for the perfect solution rather than just doing the
> > good in the mean time.  Upstream has mostly abandoned ksynaptics as well
> > as become unreachable via email.  However, there does seem to be some work
> > there on a new package "TochFreeze" that while not providing all of the
> > functionality of ksynaptics, does appear to be event driven instead of
> > polling.  See http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I took a stab at rewriting syndaemon to catch X events and sleep
> otherwise, but was unable to figure out how to get events when a) the
> app is not a window, and b) events go to windows.  Given that I know
> nothing about really writing such an app, it was an interesting
> couple-hour exercise, but ultimately fruitless.  Someone who knows
> more about X could probably recreate my worthless attempt in 5
> minutes, and may even know enough to do it right.

Wow, what a hack.  That really seems like something better done in the
server itself.

- ajax