On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Philipp Kerling wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 05.01.2009, 10:53 +1000 schrieb Peter Hutterer: > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:32:52PM +0100, Philipp Kerling wrote: > > > the xorg utility xsetpointer reports that it is deprecated for XInput > > > versions >= 1.4. It still works fine even in newer ones. What exactly > > > has been deprecated and what functions should be used instead? > > > > xsetpointer changes options on the core pointer device. since 1.4, the core > > pointer device is just a virtual device, with all physical devices hanging > > off > > it. it is recommended that the physical devices are configured one-by-one > > instead (try the "xinput" tool). > > > > the problem with xsetpointer is simply that because it only knows about the > > core pointer, it forces the core pointer configuration onto all other > > devices, > > overwriting a per-device configuration. > Thanks for the hint. What I want to do is remove a device from the > virtual core pointer so that I can exclusively use it. xsetpointer > allowed me to do that, but I couldn't find a way to do the same thing > with the xinput utility, at least not when using XInput 1.4. Do I have > to use XInput 2 for that to work? Setting option "CoreEvents" "false" in the config would probably be what you want here.
Otherwise, you'd have to grab both device and pointer + keyboard and just drop all core events for the time being. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
