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  1. Bug #298963
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Comment 1 for bug 298963

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Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader) wrote :

Looks like someone found the reason for this problem in another bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/267682/comments/84

"It seems that the X server grabs the relevant /dev/input/eventX with ioctl(EVIOCGRAB), which means it gets exclusive access to the events"