Making X report the mouse position with subpixel precision
Xavier Bestel
xavier.bestel at free.fr
Wed Feb 28 01:40:56 PST 2007
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 04:11 +0200, Johan Kiviniemi wrote:
> First of all, the X server would need to handle mouse coordinates
> internally as floating-point numbers, not integers.
IMHO float conversions are too slow for small devices without FPU (think
ARM-based phones or PDAs). Fixed-point coordinates would be a wiser
choise, as conversion to integer is trivial.
Xav
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