On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:42:44PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using a mouse with gpm and brltty, and it is working well... Is it
> > possible to get the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the terminal in
> > text mode? eg. work like the page up and page down keys, maybe not as
> > bigger chunks though... Thought it could be cool to scroll emacs buffers
> > and the like with a mouse under text mode?
> >
> > Is this possible with gpm?
>
> I think the next/new ncurses will allow this sort of thing. Maybe Thomas
> Dickey has more info. He seems to magically pop in if xterm or lynx is
> mentioned in a post.
google (though as time passes, it's more and more spotty in its coverage)
I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are
doable with the extension I added a few years ago, and have tested in
xterm (which is a binary change).
That part is something that Daniel Baumann is steering toward
in ncurses updates.
For gpm specifically - that would still require some change (but doesn't
require a whole new version of ncurses). Someone a few months ago
stated that there's some patch (or configuration) where gpm would
deliver button 4/5 events sort of like xterm, but looking at the gpm.h
header, the only comments regarding wheel mice say it's not clear:
/*....................................... Cfg buttons */
/* Each button has one bit in the 16 bit buttons field.
* Mouse movement and wheel movement are not associated with a button
* i.e. buttons=GPM_B_NONE in these cases
* (except for ms3 mouse, for reasons unknown?)
* The middle button if pressed down (or clicked) is independent of
* the wheel "device" which it happens to be associated with
* The use of GPM_B_UP/DOWN with ms3 is unclear. Maybe the wheel
* could be rolled forward then backward
* and this would generate a 'click' event on 'button 5' GPM_B_UP,
* but really the expected behaviour of wheel is movement, typically
* used for jump scrolling or for jumping between fields on a form. */
#define GPM_B_DOWN 32
#define GPM_B_UP 16
#define GPM_B_FOURTH 8
#define GPM_B_LEFT 4
#define GPM_B_MIDDLE 2
#define GPM_B_RIGHT 1
#define GPM_B_NONE 0
(since gpm's documentation is its source code...)
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Thomas E. Dickey
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mouse and gpm
