How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 03:16:22 PST 2007


On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
 
> Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell them 
> which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file?
> 
> ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux.

Try it. If it works let us know. :)

Very unlikely.

Nowadays all X display managers supply multiseat. So this might not be
too much of a problem if the mouse and keyboard events are kept
separated at the kernel level.

But AFAIK muxing is hard to "fix"...

regards,
Girish


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