mickey

linux console mouse/keyboard tool

• yes, that is a graphical mouse pointer on the text-mode console. the bottom four characters ^A,^B,^C,^D are remapped to the cursor like this
• works with raw /dev/input/by-id/* devices; does not require /dev/input/mice or gpm or consolation or jamd

quick start

make && ./m /dev/input/by-id/*mouse &

hotkey usage

• you can pass a regular file and a keyboard device as arguments to enable a hotkey
• tap left-alt (or left-option/meta; tap means press and release) to invoke hotkey

# assuming you've bound ^B\ to something interesting...
echo 00000000 02 5c | xxd -r - > tmux-menu-hotkey  
./m /dev/input/by-id/* tmux-menu-hotkey &
tmux

masking

• listing other vc /dev/{tty,vcsa}[123...] will disable drawing on any other vc
• masking should be used if you are using e.g. wayland, kmscon, etc on another vc
• you probably won't need this

troubleshooting

• serial devices e.g. /dev/ttyS0 and (named) fifos are forwarded to the vc like keystrokes if anyone still has a mouse for these i could be tempted to implement some serial mouse protocols as well
• remember you can cat /dev/vcs to see what's on the "screen" even if you can't see what's on the screen
• try running as root. if that works you can try using strace to see what the difference is
• you probably have setfont installed. try it. if it can't change the font, this isn't going to be able to either
• can you cat your mouse (look in /dev/input/by-id/ and see if anything stands out) and see stuff?