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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] pvfb: Split mouse and keyboard into separate

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] pvfb: Split mouse and keyboard into separate devices.
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:20:30 +0100
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Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Well, this all really got me wondering why are we trying to jump through
> all these hoops to let have keyboard events routed differently from
> mouse events.

Simply because it causes much less trouble.  With real, physical devices
it rarely happens that you have *one* device for *both* keyboard and
mouse.  Applications are simply not prepared to handle that ...

cheers,
  Gerd

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