Open PlasmaHH opened 4 years ago
Sorry, I'm not sure if I follow what you are suggesting. Can you explain in more detail, please?
I think the suggestion is to buffer a few incoming keystrokes at a time, so you display them after a timeout. So instead of getting many many single keypress logs, you get a concatenated string of keys, when user is idle for some timeout value in milliseconds.
Hmm, interesting idea. Keep a buffer of say 8 keystrokes for each observed device, start filling it up, and log the time it was added. If another keystroke comes in, add it to the buffer, and update the time. A timer task periodically checks each per-device buffer timestamp, and if it is more than X period old, prints and clears the buffer. If the buffer gets filled, print and clear immediately. Probably not too hard to implement, but may require more memory than is available.
Hey, another thought that might improve things in a noisy environment, maybe its worth implementing. I have honestly no idea for the different supported hardware how much memory is available but might be worth thinking about it.
The idea is to have a ringbuffer of a couple of bytes/keystrokes/mouse movements associated with each device (especially for there being a few unencrypted around here still), maybe configurable at compile/run time? When listing the devices this could then display those, which is a bit nicer in display than the single keycodes in the logs as well as a bit better for many devices than passing it through to the host.