VMMOUSE(4)

📦 version 13.2.0, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

okay bestie, welcome to the vmmouse(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — it’s all about the VMware Mouse input driver, and yes, we’re giving it the full group-chat treatment. 🦋✨

💖 NAME 💖

vmmouse — VMware Mouse input driver. That’s the name, no cap. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "idevname"
  Driver "vmmouse"
  ...
EndSection

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

vmmouse is an XFree86 input driver for mice. The driver supports most available mouse types and interfaces. USB mice are only supported on some OSs, and the level of support for PS/2 mice depends on the OS. 🐭✨

The vmmouse driver functions as a pointer input device, and may be used as the X server’s core pointer. Multiple mice are supported by multiple instances of this driver. Literally main character energy for your pointer. 👑🫶

✨ CONFIGURATION DETAILS ✨

Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details and for options that can be used with all input drivers. This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver. 💅

The driver will automatically detect if the vmmouse device is present and if it is not, it will load the regular mouse driver and attempt to fall back to it. There are no vmmouse specific options, but if you set mouse(4) options, they will be passed on. 🫶

See the mouse(4) man page for details on these options.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), mouse(4)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Copyright (c) 1999-2007 VMware, Inc.

sign-off time, bestie: this page is from X Version 11 and xf86-input-vmmouse 13.2.0 — the footer also says VMMOUSE(4), and the date isn’t printed in this footer, but the source/version info is locked in. 💜🎀

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