mouse-test(1)

📦 version 1.20.7.r38.ge82d1a6, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 9, epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 NAME 💖

mouse-test — bestie, it's literally a tool for figuring out what kind of mouse you have and which device it's attached to. 🐭✨

🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

mouse-test [ device ... ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk: this app is experimental and incomplete 🙈 like it's a work in progress and it knows it. But what it does do is try to help you figure out which protocol your mouse is out here speaking, because honestly your mouse has a whole personality and you deserve to know it.

It can detect MouseMan devices, no cap 👑

And it can also help you choose between -t ms (the three-buttons-aware situation 💅) and bare old two-buttons-only serial mice (the vintage icons, we respect them 🫶).

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, the author is fully aware this app is buggy 😭 but plot twist: they only own one mouse device. That's it. One. So if you're interested in this app, just call them and wake them up from their laziness fr fr 💤➡️🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • device [ device ... ] — check this device for a mouse, bestie 🔍🐭. And if you don't list any devices at all? Then mouse-test will try all possible devices — it's giving thorough, it's giving main character energy 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Alessandro Rubini <rubini@linux.it> — the icon, the legend 🫶

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • /dev/* — the devices used to search for a mouse 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

and that's the whole vibe bestie, slay 💅✨

This was brought to you by the General Commands Manual, dated March 26, 1998 — yes she's vintage, and yes she still ate 💖🎀🦋

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