Bug 92897 - Split mixed devices into distinct pointer/keyboard devices
Summary: Split mixed devices into distinct pointer/keyboard devices
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Input/evdev (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Blocks: 49950
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Reported: 2015-11-10 22:18 UTC by Peter Hutterer
Modified: 2016-04-15 04:31 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Hutterer 2015-11-10 22:18:16 UTC 
A device that's both a pointer and a keyboard device confuses the server with its strict pointer/keyboard separation, see Bug 49950 amongst others.

The only viable solution appears to be to split the devices at the driver level into a keyboard and a pointer component, then send the events accordingly.
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2016-04-15 04:31:27 UTC 
giving this a wontfix, it's unlikely to get fixed for the evdev driver. however, the libinput driver provides this functionality since this commit:

commit 1f43f3921f6ceebd9a0cb92ef998a930d5fc3a3e
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Wed Nov 11 10:10:58 2015 +1000

    Split mixed pointer/keyboard devices into two separate X devices

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