On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:25:53AM -0700, Kristis Makris wrote: > > This may actually make sense if the touchpad is the core pointer and the > > external mouse isn't. xmodmap only affects the core pointer. > > That's exactly the case. > > I wonder what's the reasoning behind xmodmap only affecting the > corepointer, and how I can solve my problem without using script to > designate the external mouse as the core pointer. I could be mistaken, but I think xmodmap goes way back to before there were XINPUT and XKEYBOARD extensions. In other words, so far back that the only input devices supported by the X Window System Sample Implementation *were* the core pointer and core keyboard. If I'm right, that would be why. There was no standardized way to talk to anything else. xmodmap is very long in the tooth. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | "Bother," said Pooh, as he was branden@debian.org | assimilated by the Borg. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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