[Feature Request] x11 input driver multi-mouse support
Description
X11 has support for multiple mice, configurable by users, and udev has permission issues on some linux distros, this seems like a better solution in those cases
Expected behavior
Retroarch is able to use/track multiple mice in x11.
Actual behavior
Retroarch only follows one mouse. For example in the opera core, both blue/red cursors follow the first mouse.
Steps for creating multiple mice under linux x11
- hook up a second mouse/touchpad to a linux/x11 computer.
- use
xinput create-master mouse2to create a second virtual mouse called mouse2. - use
xinputto display ids, and attach second mouse id to mouse2 id viaxinput reattach 9 18replacing 9 with second mouse id and 18 with mouse2 virtual mouse id.
Notes for retroarch changes to the x11 input driver to support reading a second mouse
Basically retroarch would use XIQueryPointer instead of XQueryPointer to read a second mouse. I experimentally hacked the code with hard coded ids and it does work but it needs to be figured out how to get the virtual mouse ids, and x11_input.c would needs to add support for storing multiple mouse states to pass on to the core.
I plan to research this further and post more information here, and unless an official dev/contributor takes this on, I will eventually try to create a patch for this.
Similar issue for Wayland input driver.