On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:49:40AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >>>That maybe implies that we need an offscreen coordinate for the > >>>mouse so that you can hide the mouse when it leaves one window. > >> > >>Hmm? I fail to see why multihead is special here. > > > >If you show two mice in the guest, would X render two cursors? > > With two mice you still have just one cursor. Just plug a usb mouse > into your laptop, you can move the single pointer with both usb > mouse and touchpad then. Didn't try what happens with two tablets, > but I expect it wouldn't be different ...
NB having all mice bound to one cursor is merely the historical default behaviour. IIUC the recent "Multi-Pointer X" feature lets you now have multiple cursors, one per pointing device. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Multi-Pointer_X Regards, Daniel