multiple pointer/keyboard pairs

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Aug 2 19:07:59 PDT 2007


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:00:04PM -0700, David Sharp wrote:
> Can a mouse/pointer be associated with a specific keyboard, so that
> two apps can grab different keyboard inputs at the same time?

Keyboard grabs are completely independent of pointers, but the answer to
your first question is yes, anyway.

> Can the keyboards have different keyboard layouts, and can their
> layout/group be independently switched on the fly similar to the
> single-keyboard situation (using R Alt, for example)?

Yeah (through i-h).

> MPX has been around a while. How does the input-hotplug work affect this?

MPX builds on top of i-h.

Cheers,
Daniel



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