On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 06:36:22PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 22 Dec 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:19:58AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Can you envisage a setup where you have more than one IntelliMouse > > > connected to the server? And be able to use it usefully? I don't > > > really see why you would want to run more than one imwheel process > > > on one system... > > > > You can run multiple X servers on diffent virtual consoles; > > wouldn't you need one imwheel per server in that case? > > I have no idea, but I'd suspect that you need one imwheel per *mouse*. > I gather it does some conversion of the mouse protocol. I compare it > gpm in repeater mode; you don't need multiple gpm processes then > either... > > I should probably go and take a look at imwheel in case I'm making > a fool of myself :-) What imwheel does is take the wheel data from the X server (or from a variant of GPM), and converts that to X keyboard events. So, yes you need one per server. -- Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> <tom@debian.org> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger tom@master.debian.org, http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.
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