NAME
wsmouse —
generic mouse support in
wscons
SYNOPSIS
wsmouse* at ...
DESCRIPTION
The wsmouse driver is an abstraction layer
for mice and other pointing devices within the
wscons(4) framework. It is attached to the hardware specific drivers
and provides a character device interface which returns
struct wscons_event via
read(2). For use with X servers, “mouse events” or
“touch events” can be generated.
The wsmouse driver provides a number of
ioctl functions to control various parameters (see
/usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h). The
wsconsctl(8) utility gives access to these variables.
Touchpad input is processed in one of two modes: In
“absolute mode”, the wsmouse driver
generates touch events. Absolute mode is activated by
synaptics(4). In “compatibility mode”, which is the
default, wsmouse converts the input internally and
generates mouse events.
wsconsctl(8) can query and set several configuration parameters for
this mode. The composite field names have the form
mouse[N].tp.field
where N is the index of the
wsmouse device. If N is
omitted, commands apply to /dev/wsmouse0.
mouse.tp.tapping- Setting this parameter to a non-zero value enables tap gestures. Contacts on the touchpad that are immediately released again trigger click events. One-finger, two-finger, and three-finger taps generate left-button, right-button, and middle-button clicks, respectively. If, within a short time interval, a second touch follows a one-finger tap, the button-up event is not issued until that touch ends (“tap-and-drag”).
mouse.tp.scaling- The value is a scale coefficient that is applied to the relative coordinates. It determines the base speed of the pointer.
mouse.tp.swapsides- If this parameter has a non-zero value, the order of software button areas is inverted. If edge scrolling is enabled, the scroll area is set up at the left edge of the touchpad.
mouse.tp.disable- A non-zero value disables pointer movement, tapping, and scrolling. Software buttons (and external physical buttons) will work as usual.
mouse.tp.edges- This field contains a list of four values that define the relative sizes
of the edge areas, in the order:
top,right,bottom,leftThe unit is percent of the total height of the touchpad surface, or of its total width, respectively. In order to mitigate the effects of accidental touches, the driver ignores most types of input from an edge area (see below). If an edge area contains software buttons, they fill up the space provided.
The automatic configuration enables two-finger scrolling and sets up edge areas at the vertical edges. On clickpads - where the device surface serves as a single, large button - it provides three software button areas at the bottom edge, for left-button, middle-button, and right-button clicks. On some laptops with a trackpoint, the software buttons are at the top edge. Vertical edge scrolling will be enabled on older touchpads that do not report contact counts.
A touch that starts and remains in an edge area does not trigger pointer movement. At the vertical edges and the top edge, tapping and two-finger scrolling require that at least one touch is in the main area of the touchpad (the exact behaviour of a single-touch device depends on its firmware in this case). When multi-touch input is available, a touch is ignored if it rests in the bottom area while there are other inputs - movement, scrolling, or tapping -, and the driver continues to ignore it as long as and whenever other touches are present.
FILES
- /dev/wsmouse*
- /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h
SEE ALSO
ams(4), hilms(4), intro(4), lms(4), mms(4), pms(4), ubcmtp(4), ums(4), utpms(4), wscons(4), wsmux(4), wsconsctl(8), wsmoused(8)