Dual head mode with mouse and keybord isolate at one display

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 09:48:33 PST 2007


On 3/2/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> After rebooting the machine the mouse is working on Screen-VGA, but I
> don't know why. On Screen-TV the pointer of mouse doesn't desapear even
> when is running xine.
>
> How could I configure to the pointer of mouse doesn't appears on Screen-TV?
>

change the cursor?  Xfixes?  not sure off hand.

Alex

> Best regards,
> Marcos Iuato
>
> Alex Deucher escreveu:
> > On 3/2/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
> >> Hi Alex,
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for you help, it did what we needs. There is now
> >> just one small detail, mouse is working on Screen-TV, how to put mouse
> >> to work on Screen-VGA?
> >
> > You mean at runtime or by default?  I think if you change the order,
> > that should change the default.  I'm not sure about run time.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Marcos Iuato
> >>
> >> Alex Deucher escreveu:
> >> > On 3/2/07, Marcos Iuato <iuato at samurai.com.br> wrote:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> I have been using dual head mode with sis driver, configured using the
> >> >> documentantion from [1] winischhofer. It is working with no problem, I
> >> >> have configurated the display 0.0 to use as computer (firefox,
> >> >> openoffice, tvtime, ...) and display 0.1 is using an svideo
> >> conected to
> >> >> a tv to watch dvds and videos.
> >> >>
> >> >> Just one think is missing to be perfect, my mouse can move from one
> >> >> display to the other. How can I isolate the mouse and keybord to be
> >> >> isolated at display 0.0
> >> >>
> >> >> I have looked fro multi terminals and xephyr, but I think it will be
> >> >> more robust solution if I could just configure it on Xorg.
> >> >>
> >> >> Here are some informations about the enviroment:
> >> >>
> >> >> Debian etch
> >> >> Linux debian 2.6.18-samurai
> >> >> xserver-xorg                     7.1.0-11
> >> >>
> >> >> xorg.conf
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Section "ServerLayout"
> >> >>      Identifier      "Layout1"
> >> >>      Screen          "Screen-TV"
> >> >>      Screen      "Screen-VGA" Below "Screen-TV"
> >> >>      InputDevice     "Keyboard0"
> >> >>      InputDevice     "Mouse0"
> >> >> EndSection
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > It's been a while but IIRC, if you remove the relation between screens
> >> > this will give you what you want; e.g.,
> >> >      Screen          "Screen-TV"
> >> >      Screen      "Screen-VGA"
> >> >
> >> > Alex
> >>
> >>
>
>



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