From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 19:49:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA26332 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 19:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA26316 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 19:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa13871; 14 Jul 96 3:49 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa23222; 13 Jul 96 1:26 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA02559; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:42:11 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:42:11 GMT Message-Id: <199607122242.WAA02559@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com CC: zounds@innosoft.com, root@synwork.com, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <87ivbuur3a.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com> (message from Zach Heilig on 11 Jul 1996 21:45:45 -0500) Subject: Re: Mouse Outside of X Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Is there a way to use my mouse outside of X. It would be nice to be able > > > to cut/copy/paste in my shell. I know when I ran Linux, mouse was > > > available from the shell. TIA > > I noticed in a different reply that this is supposed to go into 2.2. > Will the mouse give xterm-like events, so my emacs menu's will work > :-) or would that be impossible? (I am currently unable to run X, it > has something to do with disk space, and non-VGA display hardware).. Here's the original announcement from the freebsd-current mailing list. There was quite a lot of discussion about this - if you want any more details, the archive for that list is probably the best place to look. Subject: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added... To: current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:54:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org Reply-to: sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just put in the last bits to get CUT&PASTE to work in syscons. This now allow one to C&P between the consoles using the mouse to select the needed text. For this to work, run the moused daemon with the prober parameters specifying mousetype & port. Then on the console where this feature is needed just say vidcontrol -m on, and a mousepointer will show up on the screen. Left button cuts & right button paste. I'd like to hear how this works out with different mousetypes and especially with different display hardware. Please note this works only on ega's and above, as the mousepointer is done by reprogramming the charset, giving the illusion that a "real" graphic mousepointer is used. There still need to be implemented a prober eventhandling mechanism but thats still on the drawingboard. When that is done, applications can start using this feature as well (libdialog comes to mind)... Have fun... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/