inject events into a named pipe

[Tiago Vignatti]

Peter Hutterer escreveu:
> On 02/02/2007, at 04:27 , Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> 
>> Hello every one,
>>
>> I've been trying to inject differents events direct to mouse device 
>> node and my first attempt is to create a named pipe (fifo). So I did 
>> the following:
>>
>> root at mt4:/dev/input# mkfifo fakemouse p
>> root at mt4:/dev/input# cat mouse0 > fakemouse
> 
> Unfortunately a simple cat doesn't do it. You have to write a few bytes 
> to the mouse device to init the right protocol etc. Only after that will 
> the forwarding of the bytes work.
> Have a look at http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2mouse/ to find out 
> what to write to the device.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter
> 

Thanks for all answers, guys. It did help me a lot.

What I really want to do is to confine a pointer in a window. You can 
imagine the scenario which we have a lot of pointers (for example, MPX) 
and each pointer must be confined to one window or a bunch of windows 
(the root window).

Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

> -- 
> Multi-Pointer X Server
> http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx
> 

my best regards

-- 
Tiago Vignatti
C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre
www.c3sl.ufpr.br