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moused listens to the specified port for mouse data, interprets and then passes it via ioctls to the console driver. It reports translation movement, button press/release events and movement of the roller or the wheel if available. The roller/wheel movement is reported as “Z” axis movement.

If moused receives the signal SIGHUP, it will reopen the mouse port and reinitializes itself. Useful if the mouse is attached/detached while the system is suspended.

The following options are available:

-3

Emulate the third (middle) button for 2-button mice. It is emulated by pressing the left and right physical buttons simultaneously.

-D

Lower DTR on the serial port. This option is valid only if mousesystems is selected as the protocol type. The DTR line may need to be dropped for a 3-button mouse to operate in the mousesystems mode.

-E timeout

When the third button emulation is enabled (see above), moused waits timeout milliseconds at most before deciding whether two buttons are being pressed simultaneously. The default timeout is 100 milliseconds.

-F rate

Set the report rate (reports per second) of the device if supported.

-I file

Write the process id of moused in the specified file. Without this option, the process id will be stored in /var/run/moused.pid.

-P

Do not start the Plug and Play COM device enumeration procedure when identifying the serial mouse. If this option is given together with the -i option, moused will not be able to print useful information for the serial mouse.

-R

Lower RTS on the serial port. This option is valid only if mousesystems is selected as the protocol type by the -t option below. It is often used with the -D option above. Both RTS and DTR lines may need to be dropped for a 3-button mouse to operate in the mousesystems mode.

-S baudrate

Select the baudrate for the serial port (1200 to 9600). Not all serial mice support this option.

-W devicename

Select the wsmux(4) control device. The default is /dev/wsmuxctl0.

-a X[,Y]

Accelerate or decelerate the mouse input. This is a linear acceleration only. Values less than 1.0 slow down movement, values greater than 1.0 speed it up. Specifying only one value sets the acceleration for both axes.

-c

Some mice report middle button down events as if the left and right buttons are being pressed. This option handles this.

-d

Enable debugging messages.

-f

Do not become a daemon and instead run as a foreground process. Useful for testing and debugging.

-i info

Print specified information and quit. Available pieces of information are:

port

Port (device file) name, e.g. /dev/tty00.

if

Interface type: serial, bus, inport or ps/2.

type

Protocol type. It is one of the types listed under the -t option below.

model

Mouse model. moused may not always be able to identify the model.

all

All of the above items. Print port, interface, type and model in this order in one line.

If moused cannot determine the requested information, it prints ``unknown'' or ``generic''.

-m N=M

Assign the physical button M to the logical button N. You may specify as many instances of this option as you like. More than one physical button may be assigned to a logical button at the same time. In this case the logical button will be down, if either of the assigned physical buttons is held down. Do not put space around `='.

-p port

Use port to communicate with the mouse.

-r resolution

Set the resolution of the device; in Dots Per Inch, or low, medium-low, medium-high or high. This option may not be supported by all the device.

-s

Select a baudrate of 9600 for the serial line. Not all serial mice support this option.

-t type

Specify the protocol type of the mouse attached to the port. You may explicitly specify a type listed below, or use auto to let moused automatically select an appropriate protocol for the given mouse. If you entirely omit this option on the command line, -t auto is assumed. Under normal circumstances, you need to use this option only if moused is not able to detect the protocol automatically.

Note that if a protocol type is specified with this option, the -P option above is implied and Plug and Play COM device enumeration procedure will be disabled.

Valid types for this option are listed below.

For the serial mouse:

microsoft

Microsoft serial mouse protocol. Most 2-button serial mice use this protocol.

intellimouse

Microsoft IntelliMouse protocol. Genius NetMouse, ASCII Mie Mouse, Logitech MouseMan+ and FirstMouse+ use this protocol too. Other mice with a roller/wheel may be compatible with this protocol.

mousesystems

MouseSystems 5-byte protocol. 3-button mice may use this protocol.

mmseries

MM Series mouse protocol.

logitech

Logitech mouse protocol. Note that this is for old Logitech models. mouseman or intellimouse should be specified for newer models.

mouseman

Logitech MouseMan and TrackMan protocol. Some 3-button mice may be compatible with this protocol. Note that MouseMan+ and FirstMouse+ use intellimouse protocol rather than this one.

glidepoint

ALPS GlidePoint protocol.

thinkingmouse

Kensington ThinkingMouse protocol.

mmhitab

Hitachi tablet protocol.

x10mouseremote

X10 MouseRemote.

kidspad

Genius Kidspad and Easypad protocol.

versapad

Interlink VersaPad protocol.

-w N

Make the physical button N act as the wheel mode button. While this button is pressed, X and Y axis movement is reported to be zero and the Y axis movement is mapped to Z axis. You may further map the Z axis movement to virtual buttons by the -z option below.

-z target

Map Z axis (roller/wheel) movement to another axis or to virtual buttons. Valid target maybe:

x

 

y

X or Y axis movement will be reported when the Z axis movement is detected.

N

Report down events for the virtual buttons N and N+1 respectively when negative and positive Z axis movement is detected. There do not need to be physical buttons N and N+1. Note that mapping to logical buttons is carried out after mapping from the Z axis movement to the virtual buttons is done.

N1 N2

Report down events for the virtual buttons N1 and N2 respectively when negative and positive Z axis movement is detected.

N1 N2 N3 N4

This is useful for the mouse with two wheels of which the second wheel is used to generate horizontal scroll action, and for the mouse which has a knob or a stick which can detect the horizontal force applied by the user.

The motion of the second wheel will be mapped to the buttons N3, for the negative direction, and N4, for the positive direction. If the buttons N3 and N4 actually exist in this mouse, their actions will not be detected.

Note that horizontal movement or second roller/wheel movement may not always be detected, because there appears to be no accepted standard as to how it is encoded.

Note also that some mice think left is the negative horizontal direction, others may think otherwise. Moreover, there are some mice whose two wheels are both mounted vertically, and the direction of the second vertical wheel does not match the first one's.