Name

input-linux-mouse — Direct mouse input

Synopsis

input-linux-mouse : [mousetype] [,file] [, [bbaud] [rrts] [ddtr] ]

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.)

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.

bbaud

Baud rate of mouse device.

rrts

Turns off RTS if set to 0; turns RTS on if set to a number greater than 0.

rdtr

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.