<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Alternatives</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Second Mouse in X mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="XFree 4.x" HREF="xfree4.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Credits" HREF="credits.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Second Mouse in X mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="xfree4.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="credits.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="ALTERNATIVES" >6. Alternatives</A ></H1 ><P >Another way to use two (or more) mice at the same time time is to use a program such as <EM >MultiMouse</EM > by Takashi Manabe. It's a daemon multiplexing several mice and making them available through the special device <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev/mumse</TT > as a MouseSystems compatible mouse.</P ><P > According to the author: <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"This program allows you to use multiple mice at the same time. This program is developed for a subnote user who want to use both a pre-mounted pointing device and a external serial mouse."</SPAN ></P ><P >I'm not sure if the program supports second mouse other than serial, but the advantage is that the second mouse works in console mode too. <B CLASS="COMMAND" >MultiMouse</B > can be found at Sunsite (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Misc) and Tucows (www.tucows.com Linux Console -> Utilities).</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="xfree4.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="credits.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >XFree 4.x</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Credits</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >