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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
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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