Antwort: Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer
What use could a second pointer be of? i have two monitors. one normal tft and one with a touchscreen. at the normal one i would like to have a mouse pointer withe the ps/2 mouse. at the other side, on the tft with touch i don't like a mouse pointer. and i don't like to use the mouse poniter from the other monitor, too. so i need two pointers, one normal mouse pointer (ps/2) and one for the touchscreen (seriell mouse). but how can i still get this?? Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüssen Thorsten Lohner Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Advanced Development Driver Assistance Systems (EP/ERS) DaimlerChrysler AG W59, EP/ERS, X910 D-71059 Sindelfingen Phone +49-(0)7031-90-70767 Fax +49-(0)7031-90-86960 mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10.07.02 11:42 Bitte antworten an xpert An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: Thema: Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:24:16 +0100 (BST) Dr Andrew C Aitchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which window would get keyboard input ? Maybe you can have a primary pointer and secondary pointers. Still I can't see the point-er :) What use could a second pointer be of? Vince ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Antwort: Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Trent Whaley wrote: On July 10, 2002 12:32 am, Nick Name wrote about Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer: Still I can't see the point-er :) What use could a second pointer be of? If you're doing CAD or GIS work, the second pointer could be a digitizer. That's how you would /control/ the second pointer. The lo-level driver side has always been clear. The question is how the hi-level representation of two coordinate sources should be. Would you want one pointer controlled by both the mouse and the digitizer? Do you want two pointers, one controlled by the mouse and one by the digitizer? Would they be equal? Would they both be displayed at all times? Could clicks with both of them be seen as normal mouse clicks by legacy X applications? What about focus issues? What about mouse grabs? Or would it be enough for CAD or GIS work if one the pointers was the real pointer, which would generate normal events, and the other one controlled another cursor -- with a distinct look -- that generated another kind of mouse events that only prepared applications would receive ? Yes it is so. I want to have one pointer which is the normal mouse pointer to generate normal events, and the other should be a graphic table that only react when I do something in a prepared application. If so, I think it is already supported. Where is it supported? Can you give me a little bit help? -Peter Thanks Thorsten ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer
Sorry 'bout the late answer but I only just got your letter. I don't know if the mailing list program at XFree86 is to blame or my university's qmail setup or the script kiddies who did a DoS attack recently :/ (but mails from the xpert mailing list do come at extemely odd intervals and quite often bunched up with 10-20 of them showing up at once) On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Trent Whaley wrote: [actually, I think it was me but never mind...] Or would it be enough for CAD or GIS work if one the pointers was the real pointer, which would generate normal events, and the other one controlled another cursor -- with a distinct look -- that generated another kind of mouse events that only prepared applications would receive ? Yes it is so. I want to have one pointer which is the normal mouse pointer to generate normal events, and the other should be a graphic table that only react when I do something in a prepared application. If so, I think it is already supported. Where is it supported? Can you give me a little bit help? Well, it's supported in XFree86 of course ;) (sorry, cheap shot) The prepared application has to use the X Input Extension (as an other poster also wrote). The documentation can be found in the tarball in the directory xc/doc/hardcopy/Xi. The server has to be configured correctly, of course -- see the file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/xinput (or the source file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/xinput.sgml) and the man page for XF86Config, especially the INPUTDEVICE section. -Peter Besides, anybody who can't handle needless complexity shouldn't be fooling around with dangerous machines such as computers. - Dan Rabin (Haskell mailing list, May 1993) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
