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Re: Two mouses in X.



Thanks ;-)
Max.

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 00:18, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001, The Rabbit of Vugluskr wrote about "Two mouses in X.":
> > IBM laptop with "native" mouse (I don't remember how it's called, the red
> > button people sometimes call "dagdegan":-)) recognized as Generic PS/2
> > (/dev/psaux) and USB mouse (/dev/input/mice). X works perfectly with
> > both, of couse, but my purpose is make the user able to unplug USB mouse
> > and continue working with "red button" "on the fly". OS - RH7.2
>
> You can perhaps try to have both mice work all the time (even when the USB
> mouse is plugged in), by having two mice. Look at your XF86Config-4 file:
> it has parts looking like:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> ..
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> ..
> EndSection
> ...
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "imPS/2"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
>
> You can add another mouse, Mouse1 (with a different "Device" option),
> and then say that Mouse1 is an alternate pointer on that InputDevice line.
> I don't remember the exact syntax - maybe you should read the docs or maybe
> someone else can give a working example - but I tried it once and it
> worked: I got both a PS2 mouse and a USB mouse to work on the same system
> concurrently. I could even have the mice "fight" each other - you move the
> two mice, and see which way the pointer ends up moving (obviously, even
> with two mice you only end up with one pointer).

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