Disabling a specific mouse?

Florian Echtler floe at butterbrot.org
Thu Oct 23 08:42:16 PDT 2008


> > What would be the easiest way to achieve this? I guess it might be
> > possible using the new Xinput, but I was hoping that there might also be
> > a solution using Udev or hotplug?
> If the application that opens /dev/input/event* issues a EVIOCGRAB ioctl
> on the device, the events should stop appearing in /dev/input/mice as well.
I wasn't aware of that - thanks, works perfectly. The hotplug method
would have needed installation of a newer Xserver & dependencies, so
this is quite convenient.

Many thanks, Yours, Florian
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