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diff --git a/marsond.rst b/marsond.rst index ee36b42..8f79bf3 100644 --- a/marsond.rst +++ b/marsond.rst @@ -57,10 +57,21 @@ does, with SDL 1 and 2 running under X (and SDL 1 on the console, too). I don't use Wayland, so I haven't tested it there. If you do, please contact me and let me know if it works for you. -**marsond** must be run as root. After grabbing the keyboard -and creating the virtual keyboard device, it will drop -privileges and run as the *nobody* user by default (but -see **ENVIRONMENT** if you need a different user). +**marsond** must be run as root. At startup, it does these +things as root: + +- Grab the physical keyboard. + +- Create the virtual keyboard device. + +- Lock its pages into physical memory, to avoid being swapped out. + +- Set its priority (nice value) to -20 (highest priority), to + avoid slow response on a loaded system. + +After doing the above, root access is no longer needed, so it will +drop privileges and run as the *nobody* user by default (but see +**ENVIRONMENT** if you need a different user). While **marsond** is running, "xinput --list" will show an input device called "marson virtual keyboard". |