[gpm] separate readings multiple mice gpm

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello Cavallaro!

In general, please contact the mailling list (which is cc'ed now)
and not me directly.


Cavallaro Ettore [Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:50:05PM +0200]:
> I would like to read events from two mice independently. I downloaded 
> gpm-1.20.1 and I couldn't figure out if that is possible from the 
> documentation.

I recommened using 1.20.3 instead.

> I wrote a simple application based on mev.c. It works fine. Nevertheless, 
> multiple mice write on the same "event" structure. Is that possible to 
> have multiple event structures, one for each mouse (or equivalent 
> solutions) allowing to have independent access to data for each mouse?   

Currently there is no support to detect which mouse reported which event.

Though this feature is planned for gpm2. I documentated it in commit
33fd9f4.

> thanks for your work on gpm!

Thanks for your feedback.

Nico

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