Hi Guys, I have to revist the mouse handling code in our MGL graphics library (runs in a console mode without X11) as it has been busted on Red Hat 7.3 and later machines. One of the things that has always bugged me about Linux is that there is no centralised mouse daemon in the system. GPM is closed, but it is not used by many apps (we used GPM but when that changes that is what broke it for us).
So I am wondering what sort of interest there would be in a high quality mouse daemon for Linux that could handle all of the mouse communications for Linux programs. The idea would be that there would be a single mouse daemon in the system that runs in user space that auto-detects the installed mouse and provides event translation for all apps in the system, including XFree86. My plan would be to start with the XFree86 mouse handling code and essentially figure out a way to make it into a separate daemon that can be shared. If I do this, is there any interest in using it? If not I guess I will just port the XFree86 mouse code to our MGL library, but that kind of sucks because I will have to keep on top of changes to the XFree86 code to maintain our mouse handling modules. Also the more I think about it perhaps the daemon should handle both mouse and keyboard event drive input (ie: an input daemon) so all this stuff is centralised for event driven GUI environments)? Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
