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Re: Re[2]: lethal mice



On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org> wrote:
> >  I think the easiest solution would be to hack XFree86 not to die when it
> >  doesn't find a pointing device. Anyone feeling up to it?
> 
> $ X -h 2>&1|grep mouse
> -a #                   mouse acceleration (pixels)
> -t #                   mouse threshold (pixels)
> -allowNonLocalModInDev allow changes to keyboard and mouse settings
> -allowMouseOpenFail    start server even if the mouse can't be initialized
lazy dude, you could have read the manpage, and told us in your own
words ;)

What is meant is, how can X be made to work without a pointing device. 
Such as, for example, adopt the arrow keys on the keyboard, and 3 keys
(Winblows keys ? - don't flame plse - I'd make a design for
penguin-stickers for them ;) as default pointing device. It would be
interesting to extend the concept to using an external hardware pointing
device, such as 4 buttons connected to a game or serial port, which would
be amendable to boxes set up in public places, without a keyboard and
such. I think that the iop program that I have uploaded to ftp2 could
solve the tinker phase, as it can send strings controlled by a switch
attached at some port - this can drive a TCL program - and why not the X
pointer through a pipe ?