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Bug#317916: marked as done (Disable Real Mouse During Mouse Emulation)

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and subject line Disable Real Mouse During Mouse Emulation
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Package: kdebase
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: wishlist
I think it would be a good idea to disable events from a real mouse during mouse emulation mode.
If someone were to have, to pick a random example from thin air <grin>, an IBM ThinkPad with a buggy track-point device that tended to send random, spurious events, it would be completely impossible to use mouse-emulation mode because the garbage events would keep coming through and move the pointer elsewhere despite the best efforts of the person at the keyboard. 

-- Brian

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:49:21AM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> Package: kdebase
> Version: 4:3.3.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to disable events from a real mouse 
> during mouse emulation mode.
> 
> If someone were to have, to pick a random example from thin air <grin>, 
> an IBM ThinkPad with a buggy track-point device that tended to send 
> random, spurious events, it would be completely impossible to use 
> mouse-emulation mode because the garbage events would keep coming 
> through and move the pointer elsewhere despite the best efforts of the 
> person at the keyboard.

  no this isn't the right fix. If your device is not well supported,
just ask X to use a 'dummy' mouse device, like /dev/input/mice that does
not receive psaux events (and afaict touchpad events go through psaux).

  IMHO, disabling the mouse emulation would not make sense at all.
sometimes you may want to use mouse emulation because you quiver too
much, and that you need a move at the pixel precision, which the mouse
emulation provides quite nicely.

  closing the bug.

  I'd suggest you to bug X about that nasty touchpad driver if it still
does not work as expected.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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