Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:58:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused conflicts with X11 Message-ID: <199606250658.IAA15097@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199606250109.LAA02494@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jun 25, 96 11:09:25 am
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In reply to David Dawes who wrote:
>
> >Because the way I understand it, its because BOTH mosed & X has the
> >mousedevice open at the same time, this is only fixable by having
> >one of then close it. BUT the X server NEVER closes it during its
> >life time :(
>
> That isn't true for the XFree86 servers. They close the mouse device
> when switching away from the X server. They do this so that other things
> can use the mouse (eg, an X server running on another vty).
Great !, thanks for the enlightment, it has to be my old'ish Xaccel
server that does wierd things. Now that I have your attention, how
would you guys prefer to talk to the mouse ??
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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