Re: Mice

[Jason Greenwood]

In theory, is there any limit to the number of mice that can be handled
simultaneously in XF86? 
AFAIK, no. You just use the "send core events" argument and it should work.

Here are the relevant parts of my config:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection
I can't think of a reason why one would want 4 or 5
people controlling the same pointer, but would be fun to try.

Also, does a usb mouse provide a better performance than the equivalent
mouse, in a PS/2 port? I would have thought that any differences would have
been almost indiscernible.
My work usb mouse seems to be fractionally more responsive than my ps/2 
one at home but my home mouse is rf so that may be the reason...