On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Vincent Legoll > <vincent.leg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Rémi Cardona <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> I'm even thinking of different warping policies: >>>> - translate: warp to suitable location on other screen >>>> - blocking: stay on the current screen, do not enter forbidden area >>>> - jump into corner of the other screen >>>> >>>> but maybe only one of those will feel "natural" >>> >>> You guys might want to look into what's been done by HCI researchers in this >>> area. >>> >>> One such article that comes to mind is "Mouse Ether" [1] which describes and >>> tries to address the problems of dead space between monitors. >>> >>> There are many more articles on the topic in various HCI related >>> conferences, those might definitely be a good start as those folks have >>> already cleared a lot of theoretical and technical problems. >> >> Very interesting indeed, but far too early to get into such >> details. >> >> What I had in mind when I wanted detailed instructions >> about how to do it would be of the kind: >> >> "Look at method PointerMove() from file /path/dir/mouse.c" >> or something like that... > > hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Cursors.c > xf86_crtc_set_cursor_position + xf86_set_cursor_position > > along with whatever ends up calling them. > hw/xfree86/common/xf86Cursors.c > > Dave. >
this also looks interesting http://aikesommer.name/site/blog/20090924/make_that_mouse-pointer_stay_out_of_invisible_areas though (heavily?) dependant on latest KDE jose _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
