[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: [ale] Inserting characters into the console

[Dunlap, Randy]

There's an IMWheel solution at
http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/ .

Or are you talking about the new MSFT IntelliEye mouse,
with Back and Forward surfing buttons on the lower left
side of it?

~Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R. Hall [mailto:reeves at earthling.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:33 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Inserting characters into the console
> 
> 
> I just hacked Intellimouse wheel response into GPM, but 
> currently it only
> logs the wheel motion to a file. I'd like to make it cause 
> arrow key presses on
> the current virtual terminal. Does anyone know how to do 
> this? More generally,
> how can I cause keystrokes on the current virtual terminal?
> 
> FYI, the Intellimouse Explorer's 4-byte PS/2 packets are as follows:
> 8 0 0 1 for wheel down
> 8 0 0 255 for wheel up
> 
> I am not able to get the side buttons to respond at all. They 
> don't seem to
> generate any data; perhaps that's a USB-only feature. Can 
> anyone confirm this?
> I'd really like to bind those buttons to commands.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Reeves
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