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Subject: Re: moused conflicts with X11
To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:45:31 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199606250836.SAA03634@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jun 25, 96 06:36:41 pm
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In reply to David Dawes who wrote:
> 
> >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 ??
> 
> It would be nice if there was an option to have the OS do the protocol
> translation, and provide a device from which the translated mouse events
> can be read.  SVR4, SCO and Mach (and OS/2, I think) do this sort of
> thing.  gpm on Linux provides a device (probably a pipe, I don't know
> the details), which gives output translated to MouseSystems format
> regardless of the native mouse type.

Hmm, that could easily be arranged, I could easy make a minor# on
syscons send out mouse events, no problem in that end...
Do we want that ??

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