On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Rémi Cardona <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm even thinking of different warping policies: >> - translate: warp to suitable location on other screen >> - blocking: stay on the current screen, do not enter forbidden area >> - jump into corner of the other screen >> >> but maybe only one of those will feel "natural" > > You guys might want to look into what's been done by HCI researchers in this > area. > > One such article that comes to mind is "Mouse Ether" [1] which describes and > tries to address the problems of dead space between monitors. > > There are many more articles on the topic in various HCI related > conferences, those might definitely be a good start as those folks have > already cleared a lot of theoretical and technical problems.
Very interesting indeed, but far too early to get into such details. What I had in mind when I wanted detailed instructions about how to do it would be of the kind: "Look at method PointerMove() from file /path/dir/mouse.c" or something like that... -- Vincent Legoll _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
