[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: usb mouse

[From: Bob Herrmann]

Ok, so If I change the cursor to be visible, does the 770 work with any 
usb mouse?   Or is there a configuration change I need to make to the X 
server?

This is for the use case "I'm traveling and have 3 hours to tinker in a 
hotel and want to use a travel mouse and keyboard to hack a python/ruby 
ditty to tabulate my expenses" - which is a pretty hard sell to anyone 
other than the developer crowd.  

-bob

Tapani Pälli wrote:
> ext Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:54 -0400, ext Bob Herrmann wrote:
>> ....
>>   
>>     
>>> Any usb keyboard should work, but mouse support seems to be another 
>>> story.   Just hooking up a usb mouse doesn't appear to work.  I believe 
>>> this is because the X server is tweaked out to work with the touch 
>>> screen and compatibility with a mouse (like showing a cursor to report 
>>> it's position) wasnt considered important.
>>>     
>>>       
>> ...
>>
>> You can see the cursor if you remove the symbolic
>> link /home/user/.icons.
>> (But that is where my knowledge ends and X geniuses need to step in.)
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Yep, we are using a 'invisible cursor theme' for Gtk, it is used instead
> of X defaults. You can remove link, or if you want to use own
> cursorimage instead of invisible one you can simply copy it to
> '/usr/share/icons/xcursor-transparent/cursors/transp'.
>
> The reason for using this theme is that cursor icon is used for tap&hold
> animation, therefore we actually still have cursor (would be also
> possible to hide completely from X server by disabling driver funcs
> implementing that).
>
>   
>> BR; Kimmo
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> // Tapani
>
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