> > Answer: The magnetic fields generated by the monitors are interfering
> > with each other. I reduced this interference to a tolerable level by
> > placing my middle monitor into a "monitor box", a box which is designed
> Note that any 4-sided or so (top, sides, back) hood for a monitor lined
> with anything grounded oughtta do the trick. And it'll cost you several
> hundred less! Be wary of cooling needs.
No, it won't. It might help a little, but a simple enclosure with grounded
sides will only shield electrical fields. Magnetic fields are considerably
harder to shield. Magnetic shielding is done using mu-Metals, which are
pretty expensive. High frequency electro-magnetic fields will die out
easily in any metal using the skin effect, but the low frequency ones
(like the vertical frequency, which is about 100Hz at most) are hard to
stop.
> > Question: My mouse doesn't work in quake-ggi!
> This is a "feature" of the GGI target... ctrl-alt-M will grab the mouse
> and the same keypresses will release it.
This is only true for the X target of GGI. The idea is, that with a grabbed
mouse, you can't switch between windows anymore, which is a desireable
thing to do for most applications. Thus by default the pointer stays free.
Note, that it is possible to use an absolute mouse for gaming as well, but
it's feeling a bit strange and it needs support in the game code.
However I think his problem is different, as it happens on the console for
him. The most common reasons for that are insufficient permissions to the
mouse device or a missing/wrongly configured
/usr/local/etc/ggi/input/linux-mouse.
> I consider this behavior to be brain-damaged and otherwise generally not
> terribly good thinking, but I don't know enough GGI to be able to change
> it (or even whether or not it CAN be changed!)
Do you really think it would be a good idea to grab the mouse by default ?
For anything except some action games I wouldn't like it, and basically
the original xquake did just the same: Grabbing ungrabbing the mouse was
a question of a menu setting.
> You play with just the keyboard? *chortle* You must not do multiplayer.
Hehe ... probably not ... - though it might depend on the macro
configuration - maybe he can "jump up, aim 35 degrees down,16 degrees left,
fire rocket,switch back to standard weapon" with a single keystroke :-)).
CU, ANdy
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