On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Grant Wallace wrote: > Earlier this year there was a mail thread about > multiple pointers. I'm wondering if there is any new > information on this topic. > > We would like to have a collaborative desktop on a > display wall where multiple people can work > simultaneously. In particular it would be nice to have > multiple top level windows (one per cursor) where that > cusror's keyboard and mouse events are sent. > > Earlier it was suggested that this should be handled > by the collaborative software. But in our case we'd > rather not write specific software, but rather let > people run their current applications unmodified on > the desktop. > > Are there any extensions or suggestions on how to > develop a scenario like this?
This doesn't really fit into the design philosophy of X11. I don't know anything about the code at window focus level, or the window management protocols, so the followinbg suggestion might not be smart: IIRC X will happy support many non-core pointer devices; so write a window manager which listens to all the non-core pointers and does with them what you want. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
