On Thursday 07 November 2002 07:18 pm, Alexander Stohr wrote: > some experimental thoughts... > > Hmm, the mouse manager of the shell 'gpm' > can handle multiple mice simultanousely. > I wonder if there is a way to "trick" X11 > so that it does use the gpm provided API > and therefore allowing multiple mice to be merged. GPM has the same issue as X in that it cannot dynamically add new devices. For instance, when a new USB tablet is attached, it should let the tablet work with full functionality (ie. pressure sensitivity, tilt, etc.). This does not happen.
> X11 can deal with multiple mice, but this > is normally tought to be used for multiple > heads, meaning you do have one mouse and > one keyboard per display. I don't think so. X has the ability for multiple pointing devices in the Xinput by default. Maybe X should somehow link into the hotplug scripts of Linux? I would love to see XFree automagically configure and make available my Wacom Graphire tablet when I plug it into the USB port. I cannot use /dev/input/mice in my config files because the tablet will simply work as a normal mouse without tablet features (ie, no pressure sensitivity). If I always have X configured to use my tablet, it will complain about not being able to open the device files. I also have a USB mouse. This presents the problem that involves the non-static mapping of the devices when plugged in. Whatever the first device to be plugged in gets mapped to /dev/input/event0. If this is my tablet, I can use my tablet. If I plug in the usb mouse, I have to configure X to use /dev/input/mice. Another problem is that X has to configure the top two mouse buttons as the ZAxisMapping. I have a mouse with 7 buttons, and I have to map 6 and 7 to ZAxisMapping and "xmodmap pointer='1 2 3 6 7 4 5'" to get all buttons to work. I know this is not a wonderful explanation, but I am hoping to get people thinking. Warren -- Treasurer, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
