Two mice pointers (xinput stuff) issue (logs me off)
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I'm trying to use two mice (mouse pointers) on my laptop (Linux Mint 16) so I've been following some tutorials that I found: the idea is to work with the xinput command. I have two mice (Touchpad and a wireless one).
So I create a new master
xinput --create-master secondmice
it seems to work since a new pointer appears on the screen (I can't move it though).
Then I "bind" it to a mouse (the wireless one):
xinput reattach ID_WIRELESS ID_SECONDMICE
it looks ok for no error occurs.
Once it's done I start moving the mice (wireless) to test. But it immediately crashes and logs me off. When I log back in, everything's alright, but I still have only my one unique pointer. Why does it crashes?
I checked log files and I couldn't find anything "weird" or that might helped me (
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
, /var/log/messages
, ~/.xsessions-errors
...)
EDIT: When it crashes a black-screen shows up (tty), right before I got on the "Log-in page", here's what we can read:
Linux Mint 16 Petra MyComputerName tty1
MyComputerName: [ 24.263867] brcmsmac bcms0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: associated
[ 24.264035] brcmsmac brcms0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: true (implement)
"MyComputerName" is computer name.
I've searched those terms with Google but it's more related to Wifi than xinput.
Asked by Salah
(131 rep)
Apr 30, 2014, 02:32 PM
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