NAME
mouseemu - Emulate mouse buttons and mouse wheel
SYNOPSIS
mouseemu
[options]
DESCRIPTION
Mouseemu
is a daemon to emulate mouse buttons on trackpads with only
one button.
It lets you:
- emulate middle and right click
- emulate mouse wheel
- block trackpad while typing
It was initially developed for Apple PowerBooks
and iBooks, but it may be useful on other architectures
as well.
This program only works when booting a 2.6 kernel because
it uses the new uinput interface to emulate the mouse.
OPTIONS
-middle B2_MOD B2_KEY
Modifier and key for the middle (second) mouse button. Defaults to F11 and no modifier
on PowerPC and Intel Macs, and to none on all other architectures.
-right B3_MOD B3_KEY
Modifier and key for the right (third) mouse button. Defaults to F12 and no modifier
on PowerPC and Intel Macs, and to none on all other architectures.
-scroll SCROLL_MOD
Modifier for the scrolling function. Defaults to none.
-typing-block DELAY
Time in milliseconds for which the trackpad will be blocked while typing on the keyboard.
Defaults to 300ms.
-device UINPUT
Device node for the uinput device. Defaults to /dev/uinput. If this device is not read and
writeable the following devices are also tried: /dev/uinput, /dev/input/uinput and
/dev/misc/uinput.
-nofork
don't run in the background
-autorescan
Automatically scan every 5s for new devices. This is normally not need, as udev should
inform mouseemu about new devices.
-debug
print debugging messages about device scans
The key codes for the buttons and modifiers are key scancodes. They can be found in
include/linux/input.h in the kernel headers or by using `showkey` in a console. The
keycodes must be given as decimal values (`showkey` displays hex values!).
Mouseemu does normally not automatically scan for new devices. An udev rule is used
to trigger a rescan when new devices are connected. You can also trigger a rescan
manually by sending a HUP signal to the mouseemu process.
EXAMPLES
To have the same behaviour as in MacOS X (CTRL-click for right mouse button and no
emulation for the middle button):
mouseemu -middle 0 0 -right 29 272
The code for the (left) mouse button is 272 (0x110 in hex). The code for CTRL is 29.
Trigger a rescan for newly attached devices:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mouseemu.pid`
AUTHOR
Mouseemu was written by Colin Leroy
<colin@colino.net>.
This manpage was originally written by Gaudenz Steinlin
<gaudenz@debian.org>
for the Debian Project, but may be used by others under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
