connecting and disconnect a usb mouse

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Chris Gow wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I'm running Suse 8.2 and I'm trying to figure out how I can configure X so
> that until I plug in my USB mouse it uses the default touchpad. Currently I
> have to go into yast and manually switch it. Is there anyway to have the usb
> mouse detected automatically and fall back to the touchpad if it isn't
> plugged in?

You can use 2 or more mice together. Edit the XF86Config file 
(/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or similar). Make the section shown below resemble 
what I paste here:

Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
         InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

The touchpad will not be disabled, you can use both (yes, this is 
confusing). The /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 will be rewritten after each config 
run so keep a backup copy after you make everything work. Yast will 
typically refuse to modify files that you have changed so you may have to 
revert to the old version to make yast work on it again.

Peter

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