Porteus

Posted: **15 Dec 2016, 03:28**

Adding mouse control in tty or command line in systemd is done in the following way:

gpm:
adding mouse control to tty (getty) or text terminal outside of xorg as an aid to use mc.
gpm is provided on nemesis in addition to mc (midnight commander) base module. You have to set your mouse though.

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guest ~ $ sudo pacman -S hwinfo
guest ~ $ hwinfo --mouse 
...
Driver Info #0:
    XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2
    GPM Protocol: [b]exps2[/b]

guest ~ $ GPM_ARGS="-m /dev/input/mice -t exps2"
guest ~ $ sudo systemctl enable gpm
guest ~ $ sudo reboot

Which will set the mouse in tty mode.

How can I achieve that under openrc? Or what is the equivalent of systemctl enable gpm under openrc?

Posted: **15 Dec 2016, 04:24**

francois now I can add a mouse that will be a great help.

Posted: **15 Dec 2016, 10:23**

Hi François,
Maybe

pman -S gpm-openrc

?

Posted: **15 Dec 2016, 10:30**

Hi jssouza.

It is already installed on the system.

Posted: **15 Dec 2016, 10:47**

Oh then have you already tried rc-update?

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/etc/init.d/gpm start
rc-update add gpm default

Posted: **16 Dec 2016, 02:49**

This is it.

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 # /etc/init.d/gpm start
 # GPM_ARGS="-m /dev/input/mice -t exps2"
 # rc-update add gpm default

Thanks so much.

Thus with mc (midnight commander) in console mode the mouse is available outside of X environment.

Porteus

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