Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:51:50 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: anthony.kimball@east.sun.com, nick.hibma@jrc.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #284 Message-ID: <199810230251.DAA13896@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19981023130800.C20302@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Oct 23, 98 01:07:41 pm
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> >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
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