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 mouse‐
port 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 deter‐
mine 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 approximation 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 regular
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 /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 intel‐
limouse or ps2intellimouse.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/aux/mouse.c
/sys/src/cmd/aux/accupoint.c
SEE ALSOcons(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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