I personally want 2 pointers, and do it by binding keyboards and mice together. (e.g. keyboard 1 + mouse 1, keyboard 2 + mouse 2..)
There are of course various problems, one of the less technical being that since you have multiple keyboards and mice, you probably will connect them via usb, and the problem with this is that (correct me if I'm wrong) they can order themselves in any order, so everytime you boot up you would have to work out which keyboards are associated with which mice, and if you plugged a new one in, it could (?) reshuffle them again. I personally would love to see this :) However, since the On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:24:16AM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi, > > > > i have two mice at my system (ps/2 and seriell). now i have only one mouse > > pointer. but i want to have two mouse pointer, each for one mouse. is this > > possible? and how must i change the xf86config file? or must i split the x11 in > > some way? > > X is not designed for 2 pointers, so there is no way of telling > applications which pointer is giving them information. > > I believe that it can't be done at the moment, but this question keeps > coming yp, so I've started wondering what people want to happen. > How do you want this to work ? > It is usually the case that one application or window has the input focus > and is told when a mouse button or key is pressed (or released). > If there were two pointers, each selecting a different window, > would you get a click in the appropriate window when a mouse button > is pressed ? Which window would get keyboard input ? > > -- > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
