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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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Procrastinate now!

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  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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