Re: [AD] Using system mouse cursor

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> > What's wrong with that? Does it interfere with X or does X interfere 
> > with it, or something?
> >    
>
> We're bypassing the X protocol which we're using for other things and 
> talking to the hardware directly. I'm afraid this is more likely to break 
> on other hardware or other UNIX versions. In other words, I don't think 
> it's very reliable as a solution.
>  

Also, the X server is likely to apply some sort of acceleration factor 
to the raw mouse input.  If get_mouse_mickeys() return values are 
supposed to correspond to the cursor on screen, we'd have to emulate 
this acceleration factor.

Plus, /dev/mouse isn't the right place to read from if the program is 
running remotely.

Peter