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Bug 681300 - Miss CLUTTER_INPUT_BACKEND description in doc
Miss CLUTTER_INPUT_BACKEND description in doc
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: clutter
Classification: Platform
Component: Documentation
1.10.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: clutter-maint
clutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-06 13:40 UTC by ZdenoQC
Modified: 2014-12-15 17:18 UTC
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Description ZdenoQC 2012-08-06 13:40:58 UTC 
For normal operation since clutter 1.10, we have to set the CLUTTER_INPUT_BACKEND environnement variable. It's because we can now select differents backend at run time. However, the documentation doesn't list this variable and how to use it.

From the configure file, we are suppose to support those values:
x11
gdk
glx
eglnative
wayland
osx
win32
cex100
evdev
tslib
null

But in the clutter-backend.c, we only support those values:
x11
gdk
wayland
osx
win32
evdev
tslib

Before making a patch, I will need some clarification on this.
Comment 1 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2014-12-14 20:21:03 UTC 
the configure.ac file lists both windowing system backends and input backends.

x11: both windowing and input
gdk: both windowing and input
glx: unused
eglnative: only output
wayland: both windowing and input
osx: both windowing and input
win32: both windowing and input
cex100: only output
evdev: only input
tslib: only input
null: no backend (only useful for input)
Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2014-12-15 17:18:44 UTC 
Added some documentation on CLUTTER_BACKEND and CLUTTER_INPUT_BACKEND to the "Running Clutter" section of the API reference.