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   Gelq (6equj5@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 09:22:07 JST Gelq

   • ruin
   @ruin if he has two mouses are there two cursors?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 09:22:03 JST Sick Sun

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     • ruin
     @6EQUJ5 @ruin there used to be a windows driver for two mouses, this isn't actually natively supported by any OS
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:39:10 JST Sick Sun

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     • ruin
     @birdulon @6EQUJ5 @ruin shit you're right, they added multi mouse to xorg in 2009.
     
     Windows does not have multiple mouse support. There is an API that enables multiple mouse support per-application and there are programs that make fake mouse pointers and multiplex the input.
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     Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:39:12 JST Birdulon

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     • Sick Sun
     • ruin
     @sun @6EQUJ5 @ruin What do you mean by "natively supported"? Multi-mouse to multi-cursor on X11 and some Wayland compositors is trivial, the usual roadblock was applications expecting a single global cursor and window managers asking philosophical questions about what it means to focus a window. Applications being multitouch touchscreen aware has improved the situation somewhat, and all the modern OS/DEs with the exception of macOS have adapted to the mouse+multitouch touchscreen paradigm.
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