On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 02:52:35PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:28:52PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:48:50AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Yes, you can enable that, and if we want to have multiple pointers then > > they shouldn't disappear - that would be the case if multiple users > > where connected, each with their own cursor. You expect the non active > > cursor > > to remain (maybe X hides it after some seconds of inactivity, guest > > specific). > > Multi-Pointer X isn't just about allowing different users > to have their own pointer. It is explicitly designed to allow > one person to control multiple pointers at the same time and > to allow applications to receive events from multiple devices > concurrently.
Yes, of course, I didn't suggest otherwise. I don't even think most setup's will be able to distinguish these two scenarios. > > Regards, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
