wsmoused
—
multipurpose mouse daemon
wsmoused |
[-d device]
[-f conf_file]
[-m modes]
[-n ] |
The wsmoused
daemon provides mouse support in console,
allowing copying and pasting text. The left mouse button is used to select
text when held and you use the right button to paste it in the active console.
Supported options are as follows:
-d
device
- specifies the device file to be used as the
wsmouse(4) device. Defaults
to /dev/wsmouse.
-f
conf_file
- specifies the configuration file to be used. Defaults to
/etc/wsmoused.conf.
-m
modes
- specifies which modes should be activated. Mode names are given in the
argument as a whitespace separated list. Overrides the
‘modes’ directive in the configuration file.
-n
- do not fork in the background (for debugging purposes). Overrides the
‘nodaemon’ directive in the configuration file.
Many other details can be tuned. See
wsmoused.conf(5) for
more information.
wsmoused
is designed to be a multipurpose
mouse daemon. Functionality is provided through independent
modes, enabled either through the
-m
flag or through the ‘modes’
property in the configuration file (the former takes precedence).
The ‘action’ mode executes commands upon receiving mouse button
events. Commands can be associated on a button basis, and can differentiate
between push or release events.
The ‘selection’ mode provides visual copy and paste support in
text consoles when using the
wscons(4) device. A selection is
created by clicking with the primary mouse button at any point on the screen
and dragging it while clicked. When the button is released, the selected text
is copied to an internal buffer for further pasting with the secondary button.
- /dev/ttyE[0-n]
- tty devices
- /dev/ttyEstat
- wsdisplay status notification device
- /dev/wsmouse[0-n]
- mouse control device
- /etc/wsmoused.conf
- default configuration file
The wsmoused
command first appeared in
NetBSD 2.0.
The wsmoused
command was developed by
Julio M. Merino Vidal ⟨jmmv@NetBSD.org⟩.
wsmoused
does work properly only with display drivers,
which implement WSDISPLAYIO_GETWSCHAR
and
WSDISPLAYIO_PUTWSCHAR
ioctls. Currently only
vga(4) and drivers utilizing
vcons(9) support it.
When using the ‘action’ mode, commands specified in the
configuration file are executed as the user who started the daemon. By
default, this user is ‘root’ when using the
rc.subr(8) framework. You
should set ‘wsmoused_user="<some_user>"’ in
rc.conf(5) to a safer user (and
adjust file permissions accordingly) if the commands you want to execute do
not require superuser privileges. An alternative is to use
su(1) as part of the command string
in the configuration file.
The following notes apply to all work modes:
- When switching from the X screen to a text terminal, there is a small
delay (five seconds) until the mouse works again. This time is used by X
to close the mouse device properly.
The following notes apply to the ‘selection’ mode
only:
- The mouse cursor is only visible for a short period of time. It will
disappear when you stop moving it to avoid console corruption (which
happens if it is visible and there is text output).
- You need to change the getty program which is run in the first virtual
terminal to use /dev/ttyE0 instead of
/dev/console. To do this, edit
/etc/ttys and
/etc/wscons.conf.