Bug#469166: frequency

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 23:00:50 +1000, Tim Connors wrote:

> It seems it should be fairly routine to just select() on the keyboard and
> mouse, no?  No need to wake up 50 times a second, and would be more
> responsive, especially more responsive than if it wanted to wake up only 5
> times a second.

Note that syndaemon is an X client, so it doesn't have access to file
descriptors for the devices (which might not even be local).  There's
work going on upstream to use the record extension or device properties
for this.

Cheers,
Julien