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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 11:15:40 -0500, myren staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> is there any support for multiple cursors on screen simultaenously?

Current versions of X support exactly one cursor, the "core pointer".
It is possible to have more than one input device control this core
pointer, so you could have a PS/2 mouse and a USB mouse plugged in at
the same time and controlling the same pointer.

X11R6 provides *no way* to determine which input device a MotionNotify
event came from. That means having 2 cursors with a separate input
device controlling each cursor would require a great deal of rewriting
core bits of X. As a stopgap, you could have the second cursor
controlled by a non-X input device (like a joystick) and have the second
cursor be managed entirely by an application.

> i am loosing faith.

At whom are you loosing your faith? "Loose" when used as a verb means
to launch a projectile ("loose your arrows at that swine"), or to set
free ("loose the hounds"). Speling counts. HTH,

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myren writes:

> is there any support for multiple cursors on screen simultaenously?

No.

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