gpm-mouse-test(8)

💖 gpm-mouse-test — the mouse detective era 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the gpm-mouse-test(8) section of the System Manager's Manual, and it is the little tool for figuring out what kind of mouse you have and which device it's plugged into. she's nosy in the best way. 🐭✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gpm-mouse-test — a tool for determining mouse type and device it's attached to.

✨ SYNTAX ✨

gpm-mouse-test [ device ... ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this app is experimental and incomplete — she's a work in progress, a girly still figuring herself out, and that is iconic of her actually. What she does do is help you detect which protocol your mouse speaks. like, a vibe check but for serial protocols. 💅

She can detect MouseMan devices, and she can choose between -t ms (the three-buttons-aware queen) and -t bare (the old two-buttons-only serial mice, retro elder statesmen, we respect them). 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, the author says straight up: I know the application is buggy. but also — and this is the real lore — he only owns one mouse device. 😭 one. single. mouse. so the testing sample size is, uh, a vibe. if you're interested in this application, he says just call him and wake him from his laziness. not me reading that and feeling so seen 🍓

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• device, device ... — check this device for a mouse. and if you list no devices at all? she's gonna try all possible devices herself. main character energy, she goes looking. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Alessandro Rubini <rubini@linux.it>

🧚 FILES 🧚

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

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• gpm(8)

and that's the whole page, bestie! it's from the System Manager's Manual, dated March 26, 1998 — yeah, she's a vintage icon, an elder, a legend. periodt. 💖✨🎀