qubes.InputMouse prompt should show device name

General Discussion
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Nowadays, some usb devices will act like mice ( for example, headphones that can adjust volume and pause/resume music ). Not all of them are expected to have the right to access qubes.InputMouse.

But, currently there’s no way to determine which device is requesting to send mouse input to dom0. The prompt window shows no info about that.

A possible solution is to add one parameter to qubes.InputMouse request, that implies the name of the device. There may be special rules to auto accept some devices, and deny others.

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I agree. That would be nice, actually.

There are quite a few USB devices that will identify themselves as HID devices.

Sound cards, for example, will do this. Yes, they will then be able to pause your music, and skip between tracks…

…but what if that’s not all it’s doing…

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Maybe based on device ID?