From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
spice-devel <spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [Spice-devel] paravirtual mouse/tablet
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:48:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110114104850.GC11611@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D300E24.6030100@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:49:40AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>>That maybe implies that we need an offscreen coordinate for the
> >>>mouse so that you can hide the mouse when it leaves one window.
> >>
> >>Hmm? I fail to see why multihead is special here.
> >
> >If you show two mice in the guest, would X render two cursors?
>
> With two mice you still have just one cursor. Just plug a usb mouse
> into your laptop, you can move the single pointer with both usb
> mouse and touchpad then. Didn't try what happens with two tablets,
> but I expect it wouldn't be different ...
NB having all mice bound to one cursor is merely the historical
default behaviour. IIUC the recent "Multi-Pointer X" feature
lets you now have multiple cursors, one per pointing device.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Multi-Pointer_X
Regards,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-14 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 10:19 [Qemu-devel] paravirtual mouse/tablet Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-13 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Spice-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-13 11:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-13 15:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-13 17:08 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-13 20:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-14 8:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-14 10:48 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2011-01-14 14:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-14 14:28 ` Alon Levy
2011-01-14 14:52 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-01-14 16:10 ` [Spice-devel] [Qemu-devel] " Alon Levy
2011-01-13 15:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-01-13 16:14 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-13 16:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-13 17:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-01-13 20:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-13 17:13 ` Alexander Graf
2011-01-13 20:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-14 11:27 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-14 14:36 ` Alexander Graf
2011-01-14 14:56 ` [Spice-devel] " Frédéric Grelot
2011-01-14 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-14 15:28 ` Alexander Graf
2011-01-14 15:44 ` Alexander Graf
2011-01-14 16:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-14 16:42 ` Alexander Graf
2011-01-17 7:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-18 19:57 ` Alexander Graf
2011-01-15 12:07 ` Alon Levy
2011-01-14 15:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-14 16:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-14 17:02 ` Peter Maydell
2011-01-17 8:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-13 16:18 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-13 16:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-13 17:19 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-13 19:21 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-13 19:55 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Spice-devel] " Alon Levy
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