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[Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:30:37PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:46 +0200, Henrik Sandklef wrote:
> > The new version of GNU Xnee should have support for MT:
> > 
> >     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.07.tar.gz
> >     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.07.tar.gz.sig
> 
> Cool!
> 
> Can you describe how this differs from evtest-capture recording as Peter
> wrote here:
> 
> http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/11/evtest-capture-and-replaying-events.html

it's on a different level. evtest-capture records kernel events and replays
them through uinput.

xnee records X events (through the RECORD extension) and then replays them
through (I think the Xtest extension). No kernel involved.

Cheers,
  Peter