Hello,
While your sugestions is a solution it still is really only an
alternative to what I am calling now ("startx -- -pointer mouse2")
I am very surprised it is not possible to specify a Default
configuration. Be that a default Mouse (which can be overruled on the
command line) or as you sugest, a Layout which is Default (thus enabling
swapping mice on a laptop or other portable computer)
What does everyone else think on this issue? I am sure I am not the only
person pining for a simple feature like this to facilitate this.
JG
Galen Brooks wrote:
> If you just want to be able to specify which mouse to use from the command
> line, just use two layouts, and select between them using one of these
> commands:
> "startx -layout layout1"
> "startx -layout layout2"
>
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "layout1"
> Screen "screen1"
> InputDevice "mouse1" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "layout2"
> Screen "screen1"
> InputDevice "mouse2" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
>
> --
> Galen Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Stop them! They're pirating my vaporware!
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, J. Grant wrote:
>
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I posted a message last week. I got a reply of a work around from John
>>Tapsell. I had used that work around before.
>>
>>I would like to request that a "default mouse" feature be added. This
>>would be fairly simple to add I think. I am sure that I am not the only
>>one interested in a feature like this.
>>
>>Using the SendCoreEvents means that when i type if I knock the touch pad
>>or buttons on the laptop the cursor jumps to where the mouse is and the
>>text gets typed in the wrong place.
>>
>>The screen section has DefaultColorDepth, this is very useful, I would
>>not want to specify a the color depth each time i use X windows!
>>
>>How about adding a DefaultMouse option?
>>
>>The current situation is this
>>I specify my mouse in the XF86Config-4 file and i get that
>>If i specify another on the command line there is not an error, i just
>>get the XF86Config-4 mouse. (should there be an error?)
>>
>>If there are no mice in the XF86Config-4 and i do not specify one I get
>>an error.
>>
>>What I would be interested in is being able to Override the Mouse in the
>> XF86Config-4 with another one via the command line. That could be by
>>no aditional keywords, just the -pointer option to startx using that
>>one. Or a DefaultMouse = mouse1 option which could be overrident by
>>startx -- -pointer mouse2
>>
>>Has this been considered before? Do you think it is a useful adition?
>>
>>I am subscribed to this list
>>
>>JG
>>
>>---------
>>On Monday 21 January 2002 13:58, jg wrote:
>> > Hello
>> > This is my setup
>> >
>> > Section "ServerLayout"
>> > Identifier "layout1"
>> > Screen "screen1"
>> >
>> > # from command line startx -- -pointer
>> > #InputDevice "mouse1" "CorePointer"
>> > #InputDevice "mouse2" "CorePointer"
>>
>>
>>Why not have the second one not CorePointer but SendCoreEvents - that way
>>you can use both mice at the same time :)
>>
>>
>> >
>> > InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
>> > EndSection
>> >
>> > I am using a laptop, I would like my usb mouse2 to be default, but if
>> > the startx -- -pointer mouse1 param is called for that to be used
>> > instead. Is this possible? If i define one in the section above, eg
>> > mouse1 (internal laptop pointer, or PS2 if that is plugged in) then I
>> > can not override it with the startx -- -pointer* mouse2 option.
>> >
>> > 90% of the time I have the USB mouse plugged in, so if i can only change
>> > to the internal/PS2 one by the arguments on the command line that is a
>> > better setup for me.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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