GNU Xnee, Xvfb and Xephyr …. and evdev?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | Free Software, GNU, GNU Xnee, Non GNU, Software, geek, swinput

In an attempt to automate (read cron) the Xnee tests using swinput I did the following:

Start Xvfb (Xvfb can’t read any keyboard and mouse)
Start Xephyr inside Xvfb (using evdev as input)
Attach the swinput devices to the Xephyr display only

Still the faked user input (mouse, keyboard) from swinput was ‘written’ to the console. Uh oh. Bad!

So, I will now with a new computer (with more than the 500MB of RAM I have on this) test Xnee in a sandbox, probably using qemu for both x86 and ppc. Doing this I should be able to:

Run every test case and report using the new coverage stuff in gnulib. All tests and builds can be done in x86 as well as ppc.
Verify that cross compilation to ppc works

Can’t wait….. but I have to.

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