Dual head mode with mouse and keybord isolate at one display

Marcos Iuato iuato at samurai.com.br
Fri Mar 2 10:12:49 PST 2007


Hi Alex,

I have tested unclutter do hide the pointer of mouse, but it's hidding 
the pointer of mouse of Screen-VGA after 1sec idle, but at Screen-TV the 
pointer of mouse still unhide.

Maybe what I need is to configure xfce?

Best regards,
Marcos Iuato

Alex Deucher escreveu:
> On 3/2/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> After rebooting the machine the mouse is working on Screen-VGA, but I
>> don't know why. On Screen-TV the pointer of mouse doesn't desapear even
>> when is running xine.
>>
>> How could I configure to the pointer of mouse doesn't appears on 
>> Screen-TV?
>>
> 
> change the cursor?  Xfixes?  not sure off hand.
> 
> Alex
> 
>> Best regards,
>> Marcos Iuato
>>
>> Alex Deucher escreveu:
>> > On 3/2/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
>> >> Hi Alex,
>> >>
>> >> Thank you very much for you help, it did what we needs. There is now
>> >> just one small detail, mouse is working on Screen-TV, how to put mouse
>> >> to work on Screen-VGA?
>> >
>> > You mean at runtime or by default?  I think if you change the order,
>> > that should change the default.  I'm not sure about run time.
>> >
>> > Alex
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> Marcos Iuato
>> >>
>> >> Alex Deucher escreveu:
>> >> > On 3/2/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
>> >> >> Hi all,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have been using dual head mode with sis driver, configured 
>> using the
>> >> >> documentantion from [1] winischhofer. It is working with no 
>> problem, I
>> >> >> have configurated the display 0.0 to use as computer (firefox,
>> >> >> openoffice, tvtime, ...) and display 0.1 is using an svideo
>> >> conected to
>> >> >> a tv to watch dvds and videos.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Just one think is missing to be perfect, my mouse can move from one
>> >> >> display to the other. How can I isolate the mouse and keybord to be
>> >> >> isolated at display 0.0
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have looked fro multi terminals and xephyr, but I think it 
>> will be
>> >> >> more robust solution if I could just configure it on Xorg.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Here are some informations about the enviroment:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Debian etch
>> >> >> Linux debian 2.6.18-samurai
>> >> >> xserver-xorg                     7.1.0-11
>> >> >>
>> >> >> xorg.conf
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "ServerLayout"
>> >> >>      Identifier      "Layout1"
>> >> >>      Screen          "Screen-TV"
>> >> >>      Screen      "Screen-VGA" Below "Screen-TV"
>> >> >>      InputDevice     "Keyboard0"
>> >> >>      InputDevice     "Mouse0"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > It's been a while but IIRC, if you remove the relation between 
>> screens
>> >> > this will give you what you want; e.g.,
>> >> >      Screen          "Screen-TV"
>> >> >      Screen      "Screen-VGA"
>> >> >
>> >> > Alex
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>




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