Let me get this right... it's 2018 and the "right" way to access joysticks on Linux is still via opening device nodes? Xorg doesn't see and expose them via the X protocol?
Doesn't seem like progress. Real progress would be routing events over the wire just like kb & mouse, respecting input focus, letting a wm capture events, etc.
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Also there's the whole quadratic config problem XKB solved for keyboards: mapping scancodes to logical positions & logical positions to user's layout as 2 separate layers. Joysticks need same thing.
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that part actually regresses well :-/ protocol dictates keycodes (linux evdev table). The XKB layout gets pushed to the client as a fd. Each client gets to feed the state machine, making WM injection hazardous.
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Oh I agree - thought I poked you about it on IRC a year or two ago. Hence https://arcan-fe.com/2018/05/31/revisiting-the-arcan-project/ … deals with gamedevs in that way (except for VR but that's a different story).
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