I am trying to grab a mouse pointer in order to be fully controllable by the app. Alternatively, it would be OK to attach an external mouse to a VM (PVM, PVM with loopback VNC, HVM, I don't care much which variant would be used…) and make it working.
Grabbing the mouse from dom0 does not seem to be easy. And even if I manage it to be grabbed, I would probably break inter-VM communicating unless the protocol is redesigned. So, it is probably a dead-end now. I've tried to connect an USB mouse directly to AppVM (through qvm-usb), I see it in lsusb and /dev/input/mouse0, but I am not able to use it – the laser does not even light. I've tried xfce4-mouse-settings in both bare AppVM and TigerVNC loopback, but the mouse was not there, even after adding /dev/input/mice to xorg-qubes.conf-template. I've also tried a Ubuntu 16.04 HVM. It would probably work after passing the mouse here. But passing the mouse input to Ubuntu is not so easy. I've tried to install Debian's qubes-usb-proxy (both jessie and stretch; I know this is both dirty and risky), but it wants to remove some packages, including Xorg. so, this would require more work… Maybe I should pass the mouse through network. I can use either usbip (but I have no network in sys-usb, so I would have to do it through an extra proxy…) or via some mouse-specific software. Passing whole USB controller to the HVM is not an option for me today. It might be a viable (but non-preferred) way later when I buy a VT-d-capable laptop. Regards, Vít Šesták 'v6ak' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1b238118-25da-4545-a83f-9245391c01c3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
