Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote:
Hi!
How can i use my mouse in command line ?
I want to use it to select and paste text etc...
Thnx!
Phil.
apt-get install gpm
You'll need to configure it to repeat the mouse data (either as "raw"
or as "ms3" I believe; IIRC, the author of gpm or some other person in
the know says "ms3" should be the correct choice, although until I
read that post (search archives over the past year) I had always used
"raw" and it worked for me), and you'll need to reconfigure the mouse
in X to read mouse input from /dev/gpmdata instead of wherever it's
currently reading (/dev/input/mice? /dev/psaux?). Although in the past
year or so, the "/dev/input/mice" may have become "magic" enough to
handle reading from gpm and might now be the canonical mouse location
for X.
In other words, I started to answer this post, and then realized that
what works for me might no longer be the official canonical way of
doing things, so your mileage may vary.