Re: Can mouse wrap-around screen edges in Xfree86?

From: Juha Siltala (jsiltala_at_gmx.net)
Date: 02/24/04


Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:29:43 GMT

In article <wzN_b.23132$IT2.762574@news4.tin.it>, asdf wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to cause the mouse pointer to "wrap around" the
> screen edges using Xfree86? For example, imagine the pointer is headed west
> and reaches the left edge. Instead of stopping dead in the left margin, the
> pointer reappears on the right side and continues its western journey. Does
> this ring a bell with anybody?

Sure, it's a basic feature. But it's not an X feature but one of your
window manager. Enlightenment and fvwm do this, Metacity (GNOME default)
does not. I don't know about KDE.

-- 
Juha Siltala
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/


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