Entrance from 4 different mice

Question

I need to create a simple application that takes (selects only) the input from 4 USB mice connected in addition to the built-in touchpad on the laptop. My preferred operating system for this installation is Linux.

Any idea how I could recognize the application that the mouse clicked on? I am open to programming in C or any other. This is a simple, one-time project, so nothing is too complicated.

Answer 1

MPX is where it is used for several mice and multi-touchs under Linux, but you will need to use xorg xserver 1.7 to get the “correct version”; this is usually accepted as part of X11R7.5 , which has just come out as "stable and not yet integrated into distributions." (Even xorg-edgers does not have this, although you would have watched if you are Ubuntu-er.)

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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