From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 21:48:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19726 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA19717 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id DAA13896; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:51:51 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810230251.DAA13896@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #284 To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:51:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: anthony.kimball@east.sun.com, nick.hibma@jrc.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981023130800.C20302@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Oct 23, 98 01:07:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >On the subject of multiple mice: > > > >I'd like to be able to grab objects with two mice and rotate them in > >three dimensions. I can do this today with FBSD, but X doesn't support > >two mice. > > The XInput extension allows more than one pointing device, but the > application needs to be XInput-aware to make use of it. if i get it right, with the above you can _switch_ between multiple devices with xselectpointer, but not have more than one active -- something instead that you can achieve with moused, which has other limitations. i have a mouse and a tablet (not supported by the moused protocol because it works in absolute mode) and i'd really like to have both active at the same time, so if that is possible, instructions would be appreciated. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message