On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 22:14:41 -0500, Peter S wrote: > Thanks, that explains a lot. > > It's still a rough edge which needs work. This package is installed > by default, so it could bother anybody: > xorg/xserver-xorg/xserver-xorg-input-all/xserver-xorg-input-joystick Err, no, it's not? xserver-xorg-input-all has Depends: xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Recommends: xserver-xorg-input-wacom > ... so a new user plugging a joystick or controller into a computer is > a recipe for a lost user. What do we do about it? > We could disable this module by default, and have it pop up the > manpage in a terminal window if a joystick is plugged in while X is > running. > > Whatever we do, we don't want X to automatically initialize a joystick > as a pointing device and start workspace warping with no explanation > given, because that's... just messy. > > We could write a better description for the package while we're here: > "This packages provides the driver for joysticks and gamepads as > pointing devices on an X11 desktop." [...] > I'll gladly apply patches to improve the description. Cheers, Julien
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