Post #4170259

2026-07-28 17:19 UTC

Ever wished you could have multiple independent mouse cursors on your Linux machine? No? Anyway, turns out Wayland supports that pretty well! Let me tell you what I learned: https://blinry.org/multi-seat-wayland/

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@blinry@chaos.social 2026-07-28 17:23

Here's a table that summarizes what I learned in the past three weeks:

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@dave_cochran@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 20:22

@blinry@chaos.social what, are we NCIS-ing it up now?

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 20:22

@blinry@chaos.social This is beautiful :blocky_white_cursor:⁠:blocky_white_cursor:

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@hhmn@infosec.space 2026-07-29 20:02

@blinry@chaos.social yes I know. Wayland is cool. But in fact: All the new fancy stuff is of absolutely no practical use to me. What I really miss is the remote capabilities we had with X11 in the past. Running apps on a remote machine while having its windows locally made couple of things easier - at least for me.

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@_g_baer_@chaos.social 2026-07-28 17:25

@blinry@chaos.social So cool. I can see this in command and control centers. Where multiple users control multiple screens, but all on the same device.

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@TobiX@social.troll.academy 2026-07-28 17:52

@blinry@chaos.social I remember this funky breakout clone for Windows which shipped its own mouse driver to allow the 2. player to use a second mouse (serial only, of course): http://www.winbrick.de/

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@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech 2026-07-28 18:23

@blinry@chaos.social Nugget of information: back in the Windows 98 era I played some shareware games that supported multiple mice for multiplayer!

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