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diff --git a/evieproto/README b/evieproto/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72b5f54 --- /dev/null +++ b/evieproto/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +XEvIE - X Event Interception Extension + +Extension name: XEVIE + +XEvIE is a X extension providing functionalities to allow a client to +intercept keyboard/mouse events, and optionally modify them or consume +them before delivery through the normal event delivery mechanisms. + +It was included in X11R6.8 through Xorg server 1.5, but is no +longer supported in current X server releases (and didn't actually +work in the last releases that did include it, nor was it ever enabled +by default in the releases made by X.Org, though some distros may have +enabled it in their builds/packages). + +No formal specification of the protocol was ever written, but it can +be mostly determined from the evieproto.h header and the libXevie +documentation of the functions that directly map to the protocol requests. + +A version 1.1 was proposed to solve several issues around security and +multi-client access, but never implemented. + +All questions regarding this software should be directed at the +Xorg mailing list: + + http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg + +Please submit bug reports to the Xorg bugzilla: + + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg + +The master development code repository can be found at: + + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/proto/evieproto + + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/evieproto + +For patch submission instructions, see: + + http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches + +For more information on the git code manager, see: + + http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage + |