Direct mouse input
Name
input-linux-mouse : Direct mouse input
Synopsis
input-linux-mouse: [<mousetype>] [,<file>] [,[b<bauds>][r<rts>][d<dtr>]]
Description
This input opens a file (usually a device file or pipe) and reads mouse protocol data from it.
Options
- mousetype
Indicates what type of mouse is attached. The following types are supported:
- 'ms', 'Microsoft' : Two button Microsoft compatible mice.
- 'ms3', 'IntelliMouse', 'mman+' : Serial Intellimouse or compatible. Supports four buttons for mice like the Logitech MouseMan+.
- 'MouseSystems', 'msc' : MouseSystems compatible (used in most 3-button mice).
- 'Logitech', 'logi' : Used in older Logitech serial mice.
- 'mm', 'MMSeries' : MM series mice.
- 'Sun' : Sun mice. The protocol is the same as 'msc' protocol except it used only 3 bytes per packet.
- 'MouseMan', 'mman' : MouseMan protocol.
- 'BusMouse', 'bm' : Non-PS/2 busmice.
- 'LinuxUSB', 'lnxusb' : IMPS2 that doesn't choke on USB (no init attempted).
- 'ps2', 'PS/2' : PS/2 mice (most non-serial mice use this protocol)
- 'imps2', 'IMPS/2' : PS/2 IntelliMouse and compatible (not USB, see lnxusb for that). Supports up to five buttons.
- 'mmanps2', 'MouseManPlusPS/2' : PS/2 Logitech MouseMan+ and compatible.
Most of the strings supported by GPM, SVGAlib and XFree can be specified. If you find one that isn't, please report.
The special value 'auto' tells input-linux-mouse to read ~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse, and if that fails, $sysconfdir/ggi/input/linux-mouse. If none of the two files are found, input-linux-mouse tries to auto-detect the mouse, and as a last resort uses the mouse information specified in /etc/vga/libvga.config.
- file
The file to read mouse protocol data from; defaults to /dev/mouse.
- baud
Baud rate of mouse device.
- rts
Turns off RTS if set to '0'; turns RTS on if set to a number greater than 0.
- dtr
Turns off DTR if set to '0'; turns DTR on if set to a number greater than 0.
Features
- Generates evPtr* events.
Files
~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse and $sysconfdir/ggi/input/linux-mouse consists of the following entries:
mouse mousetype mdev file
where mousetype and file has the same semantics as the invocation options of the same names.