GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86895
Mouse capplet doesn't support multple mouses
Last modified: 2010-12-07 17:44:57 UTC
The mouse capplet doesn't have support for multiple mouses. I've attached both a normal mouse and a trackball to my box and i'd like to set different properties (speed, accelleration) for both. The mouse capplet only allows me to set general settings for both.
I'm not sure if this is possable. I think X Windows sees any number of physical pointing devices as one.
I'm fairly sure it is possible, but the current dialog is not structured to support this sort of thing at all. Not a 2.0.x feature.
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So, when is this going to be put on the slate then? Is it a high priority or a nice to have? I don't know many people using several mice with different configs though.
I think the pri on this one should be low -- this is pretty rare.
any news on this?
When I upgraded all the packages from 2.8 to 2.14, the mouse acceleration options and left-handedness have become applied to the graphic tablet, thus mixing up the buttons and making absolute positioning incorrect. ¿How rare will it be now that people are buying graphic tablets (though I may be talking to the "wrong" people :) )?
It is pretty common for laptops to plug a USB mouse when sitting at the desk, and you don't necessary want the same settings as for the touchpad. Someone also reported at http://bugs.debian.org/447205 : When setting a mouse to left-handed, this affects all connected mice. This, however, is very trouble-some with Apple laptops because their touchpad only has a single button which will suddenly be a right button rather than stay a left button. Normally, for the left button a two- or three-finger touch is configured with synaptics instead. This means that it is not possible to use a left-handed mouse along with the touchpad on such machines without switching the mouse to right-handed whenever using the touchpad and to left-handed for using a mouse.
*** Bug 527194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
X supports input-hotplug now, so it should be doable. With the evdev driver every device has a device file of it own etc., so the old method of having all the input events mixed into one is no longer necessary.
We support 3 different types of devices: - mice/trackball, and we won't be making a differentiation between those in the UI, sorry Jeroen - touchpads, those have separate settings in GNOME 3 - tablets, those don't have a UI yet, but settings are available in gnome-settings-daemon for them, and mice settings shouldn't be applied to them (otherwise you found a bug, so please file a new one). So we do support multiple pointing devices now, but only as different classes, not as individual devices.