[PD] Window focus in gem

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:47 AM, James Dunn wrote:

> Quoth Justin Glenn Smith, on 18/02/10 19:53:
>>> Hmm, I think [linuxevent] might be the way to go. There's a post  
>>> from
>>> Hans in the archives that suggests adding the user to the input  
>>> group to
>>> open the keyboard, but I think the group is root? So is this  
>>> really the
>>> best way to input my keyboard as an ordinary user in pd? I'd  
>>> rather not
>>> have my everday user account with root priveleges.
>>>
>>>
>> The point of a group is not giving out root privileges. Adding a  
>> user to the input group gives access to input devices, just like  
>> adding to the audio group gives access to audio devices. The file  
>> to edit for this is /etc/group
>>
>
> Thanks for the tip. I worked this out in the end, despite  
> temporarily disabling root priveliges on all accounts!
> So now I'm using [hid], which is great! But it's outputting double  
> triggers for each key press - is this normal? I've attached a patch  
> to illustrate the problem and how I have worked around it for now,  
> but would be interested to hear other options or alternatives.
>
> thanks

[hid] just outputs the events it gets from /dev/input/event* unless  
you've discovered some obscure bug.  What are the full events that you  
are getting in duplicate?  (i.e. key key_a 1)

Since you've got [hid] running on GNU/Linux, perhaps you could quickly  
outline the steps you needed to take to get it working on pdpedia.  A  
lot of people have had trouble getting it going on recent GNU/Linux  
distros:
http://wiki.puredata.info/en/hid
For editing, the name is 'pdpedia'  the password is 'puredata'

.hc


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