moused is a mouse
daemon
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The word ...
on
FreeBSD
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systems that works with the console driver to support mouse operations in the
text console
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system. The teletype was an example of an early-day hard-copy terminal and ...
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
X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wit ...
to share the mouse.
See also
*
GPM
External links
moused(8) FreeBSD
man page
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X11 Configuration
FreeBSD
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