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Szerző: Ian Zimmerman
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Címzett: dng
Tárgy: Re: [DNG] Why X does keyboard and mouse.
On 2021-01-01 15:05, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> This kind of remapping, and others, such as managing window borders,
> is done by the window manager in X. The window manager is a separate
> process, doesn't need to be present, and can even run on a separate
> machine from the client and/or server.


I am quite sure you are wrong here. The window manager _draws_ the
borders, but the server definitely knows where they are.

And as for keyboard sending pointer events:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_keys#Enabling

(I use the setxkbmap method.)

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Ian