title: How can you take ownership of a hid device?
body: <p>What I would like to take ownership of a hid device that may already have been plugged in, consume it's output, while preventing others(X11 or terminal) from consuming it.</p>
  
  <p>If I can help it, I don't want to pretend to be a terminal, but rather to monopolize a particular hid or character device. The idea is that some hid devices may be recognized as mice/keyboards by x/terminal, but a second mouse or keyboard  could be used for something else, but to do that you need to make sure they aren't sending spurious input into an open terminal.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any insight as to how this might be done?</p>