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Is there anyway to disable xbmc from hijacking my keyboard/mouse?
I want xbmc to only be controlled with my remote and nothing else.
--sbradley
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Mouse, yes, settings > appearance.
Keyboard, ...are you trying to shoot yourself in the foot?
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I have setup dual display with two independent screens via nvidia card.
I want mouse/keyboard on display 1 for surfing internet and remote only control on display2 with xbmc.
I am not insane, because I dont need those inputs for xbmc.
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In that case the problem is a limitation with SDL 1.2 which should hopefully be resolved in 1.3 (it's slated anyway).
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what do you mean resolve? What exactly is the problem?
hijacking keyboard/mouse is not desired behavior.
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The actually problem after disabling mouse in config, is that in fullscreen mode I cannot move the mouse over to the other display and thus the keyboard will not work.
The real question is probably, I guess would be how to limit keyboard/mouse functionality on only 1 display or is there a way to prevent fullscreen mode from holding mouse hijack to that 1 display.
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Have a dig through the Xorg docs, that's the level you'd need to do it at.
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yeah that is what I am thinking now. I think this might be an X issue.
