TH MOUSE 8
SH NAME
aux/mouse, aux/accupoint \- configure a mouse to a port
SH SYNOPSIS
B aux/mouse
[
B -b
I baud
] [
B -d
I type
] [
B -n
]
I port
PP
B aux/accupoint
SH DESCRIPTION
B 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.
PP
I Port
can be either a port number (e.g.
B 0
or
BR 1 )
or the string
B ps2
or
BR ps2intellimouse .
The initialization can be automated by setting
BR mouseport
in
IR plan9.ini (8),
which will enable a call to
I mouse
in
B termrc
(see
IR cpurc (8)).
PP
The option
B -d
provides a default mouse type should
B mouse
fail to determine it. The
types are:
IP C
Logitech type C mouse
IP W
Logitech type W mouse
IP M
Microsoft compatible mouse
PP
The
B -n
flag queries the mouse and reports its type but does not set the device type.
PP
The
B -b
flag sets the baud rate for communication; it is effectual only for serial mice.
SH
I Accupoint
is a process, to be used with
IR 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
IR 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.
I 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
IR accupoint ,
add a line like this to
B /usr/$user/lib/profile
or to a system-dependent configuration script in
B termrc
(see
IR cpurc (8)):
EX
IP
pipefile -dr /bin/aux/accupoint /dev/mouse
EE
PP
Before running
IR accupoint ,
the mouse should be configured as an
B intellimouse
or
BR ps2intellimouse .
SH SOURCE
B /sys/src/cmd/aux/mouse.c
br
B /sys/src/cmd/aux/accupoint.c
SH SEE ALSO
IR cons (3),
IR cpurc (8),
IR pipefile (1).
SH BUGS
Due to the limitations of
IR pipefile (1),
when running
I accupoint
it is difficult restart
IR rio (1)
if it has exited.
