RE: Absolute mouse position

2022-09-19 Thread Jesse Van Gavere
-Original Message- From: Simon Ser Sent: Monday, 19 September 2022 13:31 To: Jesse Van Gavere Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Absolute mouse position On Monday, September 19th, 2022 at 13:19, Jesse Van Gavere wrote: > Is it possible to somehow get the absol

Absolute mouse position

2022-09-19 Thread Jesse Van Gavere
Hello, Is it possible to somehow get the absolute mouse position relative to a screen from Wayland as was possible in X11? It is something an application of ours relies on to work properly and we've been trying to see if we can make this work in both X11 and Wayland. Regards, Jesse

RE: Absolute mouse position retrieval

2021-12-06 Thread Jesse Van Gavere
a similar feature on Wayland exists or it's a feature that will be added/can be added by us one way or another. -Original Message- From: Simon Ser Sent: Monday, 6 December 2021 12:10 To: Jesse Van Gavere Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Absolute mouse position ret

Absolute mouse position retrieval

2021-12-06 Thread Jesse Van Gavere
For a device we're making, it's necessary to have a daemon running on servers which frequently polls the absolute mouse location and transmits this to our device, this is a necessary feature to have correct operation of our device. The problem we're running into is that on an old OS this will wor