From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:10:15 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144816815.26172.1.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060412004205.3d0af6bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:42 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:47:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to do this automatically, nor how to make X use a
> > different mouse without restarting...
>
> Would a symlink help here? Link the touchpad to, say, dev/input/mymouse
> then override this link with one to the USB mouse when it is plugged it.
> Then use the symlink is xorg.conf.
I guess that depends if X tries to be intelligent (like some apps) and
finds the target of the symlink at startup, instead of just using the
symlink. Also, I don't know what would happen if you pulled the symlink
while it was being used... one way to find out :)
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-11 19:55 [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse? Jarry
2006-04-11 20:36 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-04-11 20:55 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-04-11 20:56 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-04-11 22:00 ` Richard Fish
2006-04-11 23:17 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-04-11 23:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-04-12 4:40 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
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