Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1036 comp.os.linux.misc:10962 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: DOOM for X Message-ID: <1994Mar14.124814.16155@uk.ac.swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <hastyCMGpA7.Gu5@netcom.com> <2lrtvn$icf@daisy.cc.utexas.edu> <2m0gii$2sg@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:48:14 GMT Lines: 17 In article <2m0gii$2sg@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: >In article <2lrtvn$icf@daisy.cc.utexas.edu> ddt@daisy.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor) writes: >>The bad news: I hope y'all don't mind if I restrict the ports to >>keyboard input. I'm kinda wondering about the rudeness of yanking the >>mouse into the window for mouse control. Would rather not muck with >>it. Real men use keyboards only anyway.. (I'm an incurable vi loser). > >Well, from one "incurable vi loser" to another, I think not doing the >mouse stuff is a big handicap. With X, you should get focus notification >events and/or enter/leave notify events and be able to deal with then as >needed. I'd much rather have Linux joystick support to be honest, that way I can read news with one hand and play doom with the other. Alan