Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:01 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: undergra@vallesnet.org (undergra) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mouse on one term Message-ID: <200105222029.QAA00550@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <00b701c0e2fc$258ce300$0164a8c0@daemon> from undergra at "May 22, 2001 10:16:52 pm"
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I'm not sure, I only have upgraded to 3.x Stable as of right now. If you
want the old way back you could put a conditional in your .login that asks
you if you want mouse functionality? That is what I do on my box.
Ian
As told by, undergra
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> Hi, on my freebsd 3.2 when i put vidcontrol -m on, only mouse pointer is
> activated on this term too, but on my FreeBSD 4.3, the command vidcontrol -m
> on enables the mouse pointer on all terms.
> is the vidcontrol program working differently between 3.x and 4.x ???
>
> why?
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
> Para: undergra <undergra@vallesnet.org>
> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Fecha: martes, 22 de mayo de 2001 18:50
> Asunto: Re: mouse on one term
>
>
> > Where are you doing vidcontrol -m on? I just did that and it only
> >enabled the mouse on one VT. If you put it in .login (if you use csh) then
> >it will enable you to use the mouse on each VT you log into.
> > I don't have an rc.syscons, but I am running a 3.x version. On mine I
> >have the moused enabled in rc.conf. The moused will run in the background,
> >but vidcontrol is what lets you see it on the terminal.
> >
> >Ian
> >
> >As told by, undergra
> >[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> >> Hi people, i have two questions:
> >>
> >> 1. i would like activate the mouse only on one terminal but when i put
> >> "vidcontrol -m on" the moused is activated on all terms.
> >>
> >> 2. By default moused is activated on all terms, i see on /etc/rc.syscons:
> >>
> >> viddev=/dev/ttyv0
> >> [...]
> >> moused ${moused_flags} -p ${moused_port} -t ${moused_type}
> >> vidcontrol < ${viddev} -m on
> >>
> >> why moused is activated on all screens ? in this line only ttyv0
> ($viddev)
> >> is specified
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >--
> >Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure.
> >
>
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