[ale] dual mice under X ?!?!

[Wandered Inn]

I could be wrong, but I beleive that Xfree 4.0.? supports multiple
mice.  I say that because I was checking out some examples for input
devices, and I recall entries for two devices and another entry which
was used to define the 'default' device.  Your best bet would be to
visit the xfree site and check out their docs.

Timothy Ball wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:33:51AM -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea how to implement dual mice under X?  I've got an
> > application that requires both a wireless mouse and a touchscreen panel.
> > The touchscreen plugs into the serial port and just acts like a mouse.  The
> > mouse plugs into the ps2 port and acts like a mouse.
> >
> > Has anyone ever seen this done before?!? or heard of how it can be done?
> 
> Do you need two indiependant mice? As in two cursors? I don't think X
> will let you do that. I looked into doing something like this once and
> it came out "badly".
> 
> But if you just want to control the cursor at one point in time w/ one
> mouse then at some other point in time control the cursor w/ the other
> mouse X will "just" work. At least it did for me. But it might have been
> due to devfs doing smart things...
> 
> Guess I didn't help clear anything. But I know at one point I had the
> use of two different mice at the same time on X server.
> 
> HTH,
> --timball="NT server reboot == sucking"
> 
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