I have never liked split keyboards but I might if each keyboard was also a mouse with its own cursor, it seems fun to develop the skill to work that way. Would also be useful at times if the the Thinkpad trackpoint and trackpad could each have their own cursor and I could leave one somewhere. Or maybe a cursor stack like pushd/popd, registers would probably work better; instead of virtual desktops just give me one massive desktop with cursor locations I can jump between, switch to cursor 3 it saves the location of the current cursor and jumps.
State of multi-player Wayland
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#22Imagine working with two separate mouses at the same time - no keyboard.
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#23I'm building a compositor now, and I've been thinking about multi-seat from the beginning, but I know there are lots of places that assume a single seat, and so this sort of thing won't work for me. It's actually a lot more work than you'd think to support this...
> It's actually a lot more work than you'd think to support this...
Like: how would one support multiple keyboards? Is there an experimental or logical model for that?
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#24The more "typical" use for a feature like this is drawing tablets and touch screens. You don't necessarily want a touch/drawing tablet input to move your actual "main" mouse cursor.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which desktop are you running where you can't figure out how to take a screenshot? Maybe some of the more tech-savvy folks here at HN can help you figure it out.
Yes. Show me how to make zoom screen sharing work without pipewire and prayer.
Since you edited your post I'll rephrase my question: Which desktop are you running where you can't figure out how to share your screen? Maybe some of the more tech-savvy folks here at HN can help you figure it out.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which desktop are you running where you can't figure out how to take a screenshot? Maybe some of the more tech-savvy folks here at HN can help you figure it out.
screen sharing is not a static screencap that you would need to email or something
He edited his post to say something different. Nonetheless I'm leaving my original comment as is.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not what this article is about. You still only have one mouse cursor in that case, but two things (the touchscreen and touchpad) drive it. This is about actually having multiple, independent mouse cursors on the screen at once, with different input devices controlling different cursors.
Sometimes that's true, but sometimes (imo the superior approach) the touchscreen is independent from the cursor. I think touchscreen Chromebooks are like that, for example.
Oh, that seems like it would be quite nice, actually. It is vaguely annoying when my touchscreen moves my mouse cursor.
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#28I have been dreaming about a split keyboard with dual trackballs and two cursors for the past few months. This may be the kick i need to actually get on it.
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#29Maybe RedHat should contract this guy to finally get pointer warp implemented for Wayland everywhere it needs to be.
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#30cant read the entire article on ios because the left part is just somehow cut off :(
Same on Android, insane that people aren't validating for mobile in current year