moused is a mouse
daemon
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on
FreeBSD
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systems that works with the console driver to support mouse operations in the
text console and user programs. It first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2 and is currently located in
/usr/sbin/moused.
Function
The mouse daemon listens to a mouse port (by default,
/dev/psm0) and supplies mouse data to a virtual mouse driver, sysmouse(4). A user process that wants to use the mouse simply opens
/dev/sysmouse and reads from it like a normal file. This makes it possible for the console and user
processes such as the
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to share the mouse.
PS2 mice will not need configuration while serial-port mice will.
Multiple mice can be used at once by starting multiple moused instances.
See also
*
GPM
References
External links
moused(8) FreeBSD
man page
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X11 Configuration
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