On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:04:59AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the > > following: [snip -- on detecting if the mouse is live] > > You should probably do > > > > cat < /dev/usbmouse > > > > it should print nice garbage stream to the terminal when you move the mouse, > > and it should stop if you dont move it. Example here (dont we all just love > > screenshots 8)
[control chars deleted] > > It will mess up your terminal if you do it for a long time, typing "reset" > > helps if your characters get garbled. > > or echo ^V ^O Or even use "cat -v" to render the control characters harmless. Jon Leonard
