Input Devices

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 17:46 +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>>6) /dev/input/mice allows multiple mice to control the core pointer, how would 
>>one achieve that same functionality (when so desired by the user) when using 
>>evdev?
> 
> 
> This should be left to the X Input extension; if it doesn't/can't do the
> "right thing", we should fix it (it's been about a year since I last
> reread XInput, so I don't remember).

Xorg's current input device implementation handles this under the hood, but I
don't believe the XInput Extension itself has support for it.   (At least 
other X servers with XInput only allow a single mouse at a time to control
the core pointer, though XInput lets you switch which one it is at runtime.)


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