I am trying to build a rotary encoder for a robotic telescope using
optical usb mice (I am running gentoo linux). My system would require
three mice connected to usb ports (two mice for two rotary encoders and
one for X-windows on the control computer). I have found a library
(manymouse which uses the evdev driver) for linux that allows multiple
mice to be connected and read out. The problem is that the X-window
cursor responds to all of the mice connected to the computer. I would
like the X-window cursor to respond to only one of the mice connected to
the computer, since the two mice used as rotary encoders would move the
cursor all over the screen and prevent me from using mouse driven input
for any programs I am running. Any ideas on how to acomplish this?
