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Re: how to briefly disable mouse under X?



Thanks, now that I've got the gpm fifo working, this solution
works perfectly.
-chris

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:

> Quoting Krzys Majewski (majewski@cs.ubc.ca):
> > What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under
> > X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By
> > programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting
> > the wire and re-soldering it". 
> 
> /etc/init.d/gpm stop (and start) if you're repeating gpm through to X.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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