From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:42:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060412004205.3d0af6bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144797462.10108.5.camel@orpheus>
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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.
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Neil Bothwick
Procrastinate now!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-11 23:47 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2006-04-12 4:40 ` Iain Buchanan
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