Making X recognize joypad input as activity
I want my desktop to stop dimming and screen locking when I’m playing my games, but I don’t want to have to disable power saving features before I start playing every time. I feel like other input devices should get as much acknowledgement as a keyboard or mouse.
Apparently most desktop environments use XSyncCounter to determine inactivity, but X only registers activity based on mouse and keyboard input. I’d like to configure X to correctly catch my joypad button presses as activity.
Any ideas about how to accomplish this would be appreciated. To be clear, I’m not asking about controlling X via my joypad.
xorg input-device joystick
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I want my desktop to stop dimming and screen locking when I’m playing my games, but I don’t want to have to disable power saving features before I start playing every time. I feel like other input devices should get as much acknowledgement as a keyboard or mouse.
Apparently most desktop environments use XSyncCounter to determine inactivity, but X only registers activity based on mouse and keyboard input. I’d like to configure X to correctly catch my joypad button presses as activity.
Any ideas about how to accomplish this would be appreciated. To be clear, I’m not asking about controlling X via my joypad.
xorg input-device joystick
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
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There is a discussion about the same issue at reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/58vjjq/… . There are several proposed solutions there that could be pulled and written up as an answer here.
– davidmneedham
Feb 20 at 21:00
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I want my desktop to stop dimming and screen locking when I’m playing my games, but I don’t want to have to disable power saving features before I start playing every time. I feel like other input devices should get as much acknowledgement as a keyboard or mouse.
Apparently most desktop environments use XSyncCounter to determine inactivity, but X only registers activity based on mouse and keyboard input. I’d like to configure X to correctly catch my joypad button presses as activity.
Any ideas about how to accomplish this would be appreciated. To be clear, I’m not asking about controlling X via my joypad.
xorg input-device joystick
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
I want my desktop to stop dimming and screen locking when I’m playing my games, but I don’t want to have to disable power saving features before I start playing every time. I feel like other input devices should get as much acknowledgement as a keyboard or mouse.
Apparently most desktop environments use XSyncCounter to determine inactivity, but X only registers activity based on mouse and keyboard input. I’d like to configure X to correctly catch my joypad button presses as activity.
Any ideas about how to accomplish this would be appreciated. To be clear, I’m not asking about controlling X via my joypad.
xorg input-device joystick
xorg input-device joystick
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
asked Feb 20 at 19:03
zallikzallik
76117
76117
1
There is a discussion about the same issue at reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/58vjjq/… . There are several proposed solutions there that could be pulled and written up as an answer here.
– davidmneedham
Feb 20 at 21:00
add a comment |
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There is a discussion about the same issue at reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/58vjjq/… . There are several proposed solutions there that could be pulled and written up as an answer here.
– davidmneedham
Feb 20 at 21:00
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1
There is a discussion about the same issue at reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/58vjjq/… . There are several proposed solutions there that could be pulled and written up as an answer here.
– davidmneedham
Feb 20 at 21:00
There is a discussion about the same issue at reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/58vjjq/… . There are several proposed solutions there that could be pulled and written up as an answer here.
– davidmneedham
Feb 20 at 21:00
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So, my solution actually was to just set the joypad up as an x input device.
On ubuntu, all I had to do was apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick and the xorg.conf.d file was even done for me.
A side-effect is that I can move the cursor around with my gamepad, but I kinda like that and I don’t care as long as the screen stops dimming/locking without me needing to constantly disable/reenable power saving features.
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So, my solution actually was to just set the joypad up as an x input device.
On ubuntu, all I had to do was apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick and the xorg.conf.d file was even done for me.
A side-effect is that I can move the cursor around with my gamepad, but I kinda like that and I don’t care as long as the screen stops dimming/locking without me needing to constantly disable/reenable power saving features.
answered Feb 21 at 21:29
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So, my solution actually was to just set the joypad up as an x input device.
On ubuntu, all I had to do was apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick and the xorg.conf.d file was even done for me.
A side-effect is that I can move the cursor around with my gamepad, but I kinda like that and I don’t care as long as the screen stops dimming/locking without me needing to constantly disable/reenable power saving features.
answered Feb 21 at 21:29
zallikzallik
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So, my solution actually was to just set the joypad up as an x input device.
On ubuntu, all I had to do was apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick and the xorg.conf.d file was even done for me.
A side-effect is that I can move the cursor around with my gamepad, but I kinda like that and I don’t care as long as the screen stops dimming/locking without me needing to constantly disable/reenable power saving features.
answered Feb 21 at 21:29
zallikzallik
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So, my solution actually was to just set the joypad up as an x input device.
On ubuntu, all I had to do was apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick and the xorg.conf.d file was even done for me.
A side-effect is that I can move the cursor around with my gamepad, but I kinda like that and I don’t care as long as the screen stops dimming/locking without me needing to constantly disable/reenable power saving features.
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There is a discussion about the same issue at reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/58vjjq/… . There are several proposed solutions there that could be pulled and written up as an answer here.
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