[Enhancement] hide oryginal joystick device?

[mwozny123]

Hi,

Is it possible to hide original joystick device (here /dev/input/js0) from test programs e.g. jstest-gtk?

I've noticed in X-plane 10 axises are duplicated but this is probably because of this issue.

[uglyDwarf]

Well, at the moment there is one possibility - in the config, there is a line 'device XYZ', if you change it to 'grab device XYZ', then X-Plane will see the axes/buttons, but will not get any updates, so the movements/button presses will not be duplicated...

A cleaner solution might be something along the lines of using udev rule to assign the original device to some other group/user, and making the evdevshift binary suid user/group (to make it a bit more secure, I'd advise using new group/user just for this). That way the X-Plane wouldn't see the original device...

I'll have to think about it a bit and try if my ideas make sense...
Kind regards,

Michal