Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 08:02:27 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: diskless X server using FreeBSD 2.0.5R Message-ID: <199512011402.IAA24724@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Dec 1995 09:06:09 %2B0100." <199512010806.JAA22455@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch writes: >As Eric L. Hernes wrote: > >Just a side-note: > >> 1) The num-lock thing stumped me for a day or so. >> I initially `solved' this by taking the mouse >> away, because our machine is only going to >> run one `kterm' and switching focus with the >> mouse could be confusing to the users. I just >> told the X-server to use an unused pty for the >> mouse device. I later figured out that you >> simply need to turn off num-lock, but not >> having a mouse was a better solution for our >> situation. > >It's valid to use /dev/null as ``mouse device''. :-) Yea, but I found that using /dev/null, the X-server would always chew cpu time. I figured that it was due to /dev/null always being ready to be read, whereas an unused pty would block on read. > >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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