*- Christopher Barry wrote about "Using two mice under X at once."
| Hi all,
|
| I just today bought a really nifty keyboard with a built-in touchpad and
| the touchpad part of it uses a serial interface, while my existing mouse
| is PS/2. I can switch between them by killing X and quickly editing
| XF86Config and then restarting X, but I'm wondering if there is way to
| get X to support 2 pointing devices at once. The keyboard comes with a
| serial pass-through mouse connector so if you already have a serial
| mouse you can plug it into the keyboard instead of your motherboard so
| you can at least flip a switch on the keyboard to switch between
| touchpad and regular mouse modes. But this doesn't work for me because
| my mouse is PS/2. So is there a way to run two pointing devices
| simultaneously under X?
|
I have the same situation. You need to use the XInput section of
XF86Config. Read the XF86Config man page.
These are snippets from my XF86Config file.
# Logitech Mouseman+ with 4 buttons and a wheel
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
SampleRate 133
Resolution 200
Buttons 6
ZAxisMapping 5 6
EndSection
# keyboard with eraser pointer and two buttons(1,3)
Section "XInput"
SubSection "Mouse"
Port "/dev/ttyS0"
DeviceName "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
AlwaysCore
EndSubSection
EndSection
| Also, one other question. How would you add 'xset m 5 0' to your
| XF86Config file? Is there a general list or howto of how to figure out
| which xset statements correspond with which XF86Config statements? For
| example, 'xset fp+ ...' is like a 'FontPath' statement but I don't know
| where to look to find these relationships. As usual, the man page and
| /usr/doc isn't too helpful.
|
Just put the xset command in your .xinitrc, .xsession, or whatever file
you use to start all your X apps. I don't think there is a direct
mapping between all the options of xset and things in XF86Config.
Have fun.
--
Brian
Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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