RE: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
> Here's a thought. What happens when you switch away then switch back > kill moused then restart moused? I'm thinking that maybe a cron job > could be created to check mouse states and kill then restart moused. Very interesting... #!/usr/local/bin/bash # Kill and restart moused ps -wax | grep moused > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then m=`ps -wax | grep moused | cut -d" " -f3` kill $m if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then echo "Killed mouse daemon" else echo "Unable to kill mouse daemon" exit fi fi moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then echo "Restarted mouse daemon successfully" else echo "Unable to restart mouse daemon" fi This works in principle, but I have to do it 4 or 5 times after switching back from windows. Any time I move the mouse, things go haywire, until I finally reset it enough times. I'm satisfied for the time being, thanks for the suggestion, and thanks to everyone who replied! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
Charles Howse wrote: For the sake of testing, put the mouse directly to the FreeBSD system and reboot (well you might not actually have to reboot but check to see if moused is running and if so kill it and then restart it). That worked fine. The problem must be the KVM, as I suspected. Knowing that, I reconnected the mouse to the KVM, switched to Windows and back to FBSD, same problem. Check out the man page for moused for further help with mousercizing and various options. No joy. I'm not sure if this is the problem but PS/2 mices are (IMHO) finicky when disconnected. If your KVM switch has a reset then press it and see if that gives FreeBSD a hand in preventing your caffinated mouse. No reset button. Don't know if it will do what you want but check out 'man cut' and 'man paste' No joy, cut is for retrieving fields and characters from a file, paste is for inserting text from a file to a file or to the console. Oh, well... Here's a thought. What happens when you switch away then switch back kill moused then restart moused? I'm thinking that maybe a cron job could be created to check mouse states and kill then restart moused. Maybe put moused in foreground and debug and see what happens as well it might offer some information that could lead you to a google search. :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
> For the sake of testing, put the mouse directly to the FreeBSD system > and reboot (well you might not actually have to reboot but > check to see > if moused is running and if so kill it and then restart it). That worked fine. The problem must be the KVM, as I suspected. Knowing that, I reconnected the mouse to the KVM, switched to Windows and back to FBSD, same problem. > Check out the man page for moused for further help with > mousercizing and > various options. No joy. > I'm not sure if this is the problem but PS/2 mices are (IMHO) finicky > when disconnected. If your KVM switch has a reset then press > it and see > if that gives FreeBSD a hand in preventing your caffinated mouse. No reset button. > Don't know if it will do what you want but check out 'man > cut' and 'man > paste' No joy, cut is for retrieving fields and characters from a file, paste is for inserting text from a file to a file or to the console. Oh, well... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
Charles Howse wrote: Hi there, Hi, thanks for the reply. I have a Logitech trackman marble + (two buttons and a third that is also the wheel) and I just left-drag then middle button (the wheel) click. You might have the same thing if you have a wheel on yours if not then you should be able to press both buttons (left & right) if you are using 3rd button emulation and that should do it for you. I bet I'm going to run into trouble on this, I have a Belkin KVM that I use to switch between 3 computers on my desk. I've had mouse issues with it in the past, i.e. if I configure it for a scroll mouse in a Linux gui, then switch to Windows, the mouse pointer jumps all over the screen, completely unusable. I just tried setting it up again in sysinstall, and it's jumping everywhere and corrupting the display, I have to ^C to recover control of console before I can get out of mouse configuration. Too bad, I have no issues with mousing on my Redhat 9 box, or my XP box, is there any way to copy and paste w/o mouse in console? Any way to trick mouse config in sysinstall? It seems like the only PS/2 options are the defaults. For the sake of testing, put the mouse directly to the FreeBSD system and reboot (well you might not actually have to reboot but check to see if moused is running and if so kill it and then restart it). If you have a serial mouse then figure out what port it is on then issue a 'moused -p /dev/cuaa0 -t intellimouse' (if you are unsure of your mouse type then change intellimouse to auto. This is on the assumption that your mouse is on serial port 1). Check out the man page for moused for further help with mousercizing and various options. I'm not sure if this is the problem but PS/2 mices are (IMHO) finicky when disconnected. If your KVM switch has a reset then press it and see if that gives FreeBSD a hand in preventing your caffinated mouse. Don't know if it will do what you want but check out 'man cut' and 'man paste' Hope something here helps. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, no gui. > > In Linux, I can left-drag to select text in the console, then > right-click to paste it to the command line. My FreeBSD Unleashed book > says the mouse can be configured to copy and paste from the console in > FreeBSD, but darned if I can figure out how to do it. > > I've used sysinstall to configure the mouse, I get a Windows-style mouse > pointer, I can select text by dragging, but can't paste. > > Is there a magic word (Abra-ca-dabra!) one has to mumble to paste in the > console? The two typical tricks are (1) press the middle mouse button (or emulated middle mouse button), or (2) press shift-insert on the keyboard. If you don't have a middle mouse button, you can add/merge the following line to your /etc/rc.conf: moused_flags="-3" This will emulate the three button mouse by having you press both mouse buttons to indicate a third button click. Or, if you're using a USB mouse, you'll need to update the equivilent lines in usbd.conf. I believe the shift-insert support has been merged -- this is my personal favorite pasting mechanism, and it also works with good xterm implementations. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
> Hi there, Hi, thanks for the reply. > I have a Logitech trackman marble + (two buttons and a third that is > also the wheel) and I just left-drag then middle button (the wheel) > click. You might have the same thing if you have a wheel on > yours if not > then you should be able to press both buttons (left & right) > if you are > using 3rd button emulation and that should do it for you. I bet I'm going to run into trouble on this, I have a Belkin KVM that I use to switch between 3 computers on my desk. I've had mouse issues with it in the past, i.e. if I configure it for a scroll mouse in a Linux gui, then switch to Windows, the mouse pointer jumps all over the screen, completely unusable. I just tried setting it up again in sysinstall, and it's jumping everywhere and corrupting the display, I have to ^C to recover control of console before I can get out of mouse configuration. Too bad, I have no issues with mousing on my Redhat 9 box, or my XP box, is there any way to copy and paste w/o mouse in console? Any way to trick mouse config in sysinstall? It seems like the only PS/2 options are the defaults. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse
Charles Howse wrote: Hi, FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, no gui. In Linux, I can left-drag to select text in the console, then right-click to paste it to the command line. My FreeBSD Unleashed book says the mouse can be configured to copy and paste from the console in FreeBSD, but darned if I can figure out how to do it. I've used sysinstall to configure the mouse, I get a Windows-style mouse pointer, I can select text by dragging, but can't paste. Is there a magic word (Abra-ca-dabra!) one has to mumble to paste in the console? Thanks, Charles Hi there, I have a Logitech trackman marble + (two buttons and a third that is also the wheel) and I just left-drag then middle button (the wheel) click. You might have the same thing if you have a wheel on yours if not then you should be able to press both buttons (left & right) if you are using 3rd button emulation and that should do it for you. HTH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
