[PD] how to use a mouse or drawing tablet with [hid]-like objects AND disabling it as a mouse pointer in the OS (OS X, Linux)?

Peter P. peterparker at fastmail.com
Sat Oct 19 10:42:14 CEST 2019


* Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com> [2019-10-19 10:32]:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am trying to use a USB mouse to control a patch with the [hid] or
> [hidio] objects without this mouse being a mouse pointer in the
> operating systems OS X and Linux. This is to avoid this USB mouse doing
> accidental clicks in the OS. The [hid] objects are working, I am looking
> for a way to have these two OSes not use a certain mouse as pointer.

Replying to myself that on Linux this can be done using the xinput
command.

Still looking how to do this on OS X and also on Win7 and Win10...

cheers, P





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