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| ===== Activate Condor Keyboard Daemon ===== | ===== Activate Condor Keyboard Daemon ===== |
| Back in the olden days, Condor used to be able to easily do idle detection based on the device files in the ''/dev/'' folder. This is great if the system has a PS/2 keyboard and (God forbid!) a serial mouse, but now with USB keyboards and mice, doing idle detection based on these USB device files is feeble, probably since USB device files vary by the make and model of the keyboard or mouse. Fortunately, Condor is now able to latch on to the X11 window manager and poll it for activity. Condor needs to run an extra daemon to do this. This daemon is the ''condor_kbdd'' daemon. | Back in the olden days, Condor used to be able to easily do idle detection based on the device files in the ''/dev/'' folder. This is great if the system has a PS/2 keyboard and (God forbid!) a serial mouse, but now with USB keyboards and mice, doing idle detection based on these USB device files is feeble, probably since USB device files vary by the make and model of the keyboard or mouse. Fortunately, Condor is now able to latch on to the X11 window manager and poll it for activity. Condor needs to run an extra daemon to do this, known as the ''condor_kbdd'' daemon. |
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| | If Condor were installed from a package manager, the ''condor_kbdd'' daemon wouldn't be included since it is considered a separate software package. No big deal. Installing Condor from its source code means that the ''condor_kbdd'' program comes with the whole bundle, which is nice. Although the ''condor_kbdd'' daemon is installed, it is not activated in Condor by default. In order to activate the daemon, simply add **''KBDD''** as an item in the ''DAEMON_LIST'' configuration variable as a comma-separated list. If the ''condor_kbdd'' daemon is correctly installed, Condor will start the daemon and latch it on to the X11 window server to allow for proper idle detection of any and all applicable input devices. ((According to the Condor User Manual, the ''condor_kbdd'' daemon must run as ''root'' in order to correctly gather input device usage statistics from X11.)) |
