[ILUG] Reset mouse in X?

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:42:07PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John P . Looney thought:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:21:43AM +0000, Conor Daly mentioned:
> > I'm using a KVM switch to share the mouse between different machines and
> > in X, when I switch away and then back, the mouse is gone.  Is there any
> > way to have X reset the mouse without doing a <CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE>?
> > Unpluging and repluging the mouse doesn't work but then, I didn't expect
> > it to...
> 
>  Nah, it's a limitation of the hardware. Just asked Paul Kelly here, and
> he said that you should power off your machine (not just restarting X),
> before reinserting it, as it can cause hardware damage. It's one of the
> reasons why those cheap analogue video/keyboard switchers damage hardware,
> I suppose.
> 
OW!

I had this idea of leaving one or more mouse wires connected to all
machines all the time but this sounds like asking for other sorts of
trouble.

-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)