This document provides some information about the XInput extension
implemented in XFree86&tm;.
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The XInput extension is a standard X Consortium extension. The goal of
this extension is to allow additional input devices management to the
X Window System. The documentation could be found in the X Consortium
distribution under xc/doc/hardcopy/Xi.
The XFree86 implementation contains 2 parts : the server part and two
clients (xsetpointer and xsetmode).
The server supports the following extended devices :
xsetpointer is used to change the device controlling the core
pointer and to list available extended devices.
xsetmode is used to change the mode (absolute or relative) of
an extended device. The device has to support relative and absolute
modes and the device must not control the core pointer.
Consult the man pages for details.