Sorry 'bout the late answer but I only just got your letter. I don't know if the mailing list program at XFree86 is to blame or my university's qmail setup or the script kiddies who did a DoS attack recently :/
(but mails from the xpert mailing list do come at extemely odd intervals and quite often "bunched up" with 10-20 of them showing up at once) On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Trent Whaley wrote: [actually, I think it was me but never mind...] > >Or would it be enough for "CAD or GIS work" if one the pointers was the > >"real" pointer, which would generate normal events, and the other one > >controlled another cursor -- with a distinct look -- that generated > >another kind of mouse events that only "prepared" applications would > >receive ? > > Yes it is so. I want to have one pointer which is the "normal" mouse pointer to > generate normal events, and the other should be a graphic table that only react > when I do something in a "prepared" application. > > > > >If so, I think it is already supported. > > > Where is it supported? Can you give me a little bit help? Well, it's supported in XFree86 of course ;) (sorry, cheap shot) The "prepared" application has to use the X Input Extension (as an other poster also wrote). The documentation can be found in the tarball in the directory xc/doc/hardcopy/Xi. The server has to be configured correctly, of course -- see the file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/xinput (or the source file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/xinput.sgml) and the man page for XF86Config, especially the INPUTDEVICE section. -Peter Besides, anybody who can't handle needless complexity shouldn't be fooling around with dangerous machines such as computers. - Dan Rabin (Haskell mailing list, May 1993) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
