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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter@cs.unisa.edu.au> | 2008-05-12 17:45:16 +0930 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter@cs.unisa.edu.au> | 2008-05-12 17:45:16 +0930 |
| commit | 4c4b977b3f53b14a33028160bc3b43b6f49bba3c (patch) | |
| tree | 4922e5bb69f3c848bfc9975fb2ba65a897b63c70 | |
| parent | 019258abc5bb90afb725676510f76799b54be814 (diff) | |
Xi specs: note about deprecated Change[Keyboard|Pointer]Device.
Server 1.4 (coincidentally also XI 1.4) always returns BadDevice.
| -rw-r--r-- | specs/Xi/protocol.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/specs/Xi/protocol.xml b/specs/Xi/protocol.xml index e3caf6b..eaf4d43 100644 --- a/specs/Xi/protocol.xml +++ b/specs/Xi/protocol.xml @@ -887,7 +887,11 @@ </sect2> <sect2 id='changing_the_core_devices'><title>Changing The Core Devices</title> <para>These requests are provided to change which physical device is used - as the X pointer or X keyboard.</para> + as the X pointer or X keyboard. + These requests are deprecated in servers supporting XI 1.4 and + above, and will always return a a <emphasis>BadDevice</emphasis> + error. + </para> <para>Using these requests may change the characteristics of the core devices. The new pointer device may have a different number of buttons than the old one did, or the new keyboard device may have a different number of |