Re: FVWM: Two rats?

From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan_at_stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:43:20 +0100

> This might be a general X question, or even a Gimp question, and thus
> off-topic in here. I'm not smart enough to figure out if it is. But: Is
> there any way to get two mice working at once? I have a wheel mouse and a
> trackball. I use the trackball for just about everything. But when working
> in Gimp, it would be very nice to have the wheel, and the extra couple of
> buttons, available. The extra axes I can ignore, but using the wheel (for
> example) as a pressure control for an airbrush tool...or for scrolling in
> documents...whatever. Is there a way to manage it?

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There is more then one way to do it. You can configure gpm [1] to handle to mice
and let him repeat it for X. Read the manpage for gpm. The other method is to
configure a second pointer device in X. It is also in the Documentation for X.

        Thomas
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Received on Mon Mar 03 2003 - 10:44:39 GMT

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