Re: What 'bout... multiple cursor support?

Marcel Partap <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > > twice as much, either just for fun (games etc.) or as real efficiency
> > > improvement (imagine all those tasks where you repeatedly have to
> > > click-move-click-moveback etc. etc. ... ).
> > 
> >    I don't think it's possible to have two cursors in the X-Window
> > environment.  There are fundamental assumptions about a single
> > cursor on many levels: Xlib, protocol, server implementation.  I
> > doubt they could be solved through extension.
> 
> The click/move/clickback thing has been solved a few interesting ways. One
> of them being wormholes - Tiny X windows you can leave around which when
> hit
> warp the mouse to the other end of the hole.
> 
> Its also not clear to me what it would mean to have two mice controlling
> two
> pointers for things like focus - even at the philosophical level. If it
> was
> "last moved cursor wins" then X already does this with multiple input
> devices
> that are in absolute mode.

Wouldn't it then be relatively easy to implement ass extension?
I mean, it sure 'd be fun (?) ...

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