GPM

GPM stands for General Purpose Mouse server and is the mouse support for Linux on the console.

Installation

$ make menuconfig

Package Selection for the target  --->
    [*] Hardware handling  --->
        [*] gpm mouse server

Usage

• Connect a USB mouse in one of the USB Host connectors. Let's suppose you have only one and so it will be referenced as "mouse0".
• Launch GPM (will stay in background as daemon):

# gpm -m /dev/input/mouse0 -t imps2

• If you need to stop it:

# gpm -k

• Then you can at least do some cut & paste in the Framebuffer virtual terminals.
• To have something more fancy, you can login in the Framebuffer terminal and then launch:

# gpm-root

• then, if you press "Ctrl" key and one of the mouse buttons, you will have some menus displayed on your terminal. Configuration for these menus can be changed with /etc/gpm-root.conf.

Links

• http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/