MOUSE(8) MOUSE(8)
NAME
aux/mouse, aux/accupoint - configure a mouse to a port
SYNOPSIS
aux/mouse [ -b baud ] [ -d type ] [ -n ] port
aux/accupoint
DESCRIPTION
Mouse queries a mouse on a serial or PS2 port for its type
and then configures the port and the mouse to be used to
control the cursor.
Port can be either a port number (e.g. 0 or 1) or the string
ps2 or ps2intellimouse. The initialization can be automated
by setting mouseport in plan9.ini(8), which will enable a
call to mouse in termrc (see cpurc(8)).
The option -d provides a default mouse type should mouse
fail to determine it. The types are:
C Logitech type C mouse
W Logitech type W mouse
M Microsoft compatible mouse
The -n flag queries the mouse and reports its type but does
not set the device type.
The -b flag sets the baud rate for communication; it is
effectual only for serial mice.
Accupoint is a process, to be used with pipefile(1), that
processes events from an AccuPoint II pointing device with
four buttons, such as on Toshiba Portégé 3440CT and 3480CT
laptops, converting events on the two extra buttons (which
appear as buttons 4 and 5 in the mouse(3) interface) into a
simulation of button 2. These extra buttons on laptops are
in turn simulations of Intellimouse scrolling buttons and
have peculiar properties: they generate only `down' events
that repeat automatically, like a keypad, in an approxima-
tion of the Intellimouse scroll wheel. Accupoint overcomes
this behavior to produce a reasonable approximation of a
normal mouse button 2: it makes left button act like a regu-
lar button 2, but is slow to release (the program must wait
for a repeat time before it knows the button has been
released), while the right button generates a fast button 2
`click'. To use accupoint, add a line like this to
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/usr/$user/lib/profile or to a system-dependent configura-
tion script in termrc (see cpurc(8)):
pipefile -dr /bin/aux/accupoint /dev/mouse
Before running accupoint, the mouse should be configured as
an intellimouse or ps2intellimouse.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/aux/mouse.c
/sys/src/cmd/aux/accupoint.c
SEE ALSO
cons(3), cpurc(8), pipefile(1).
BUGS
Due to the limitations of pipefile(1), when running
accupoint it is difficult restart rio(1) if it has exited.
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