From: bru Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 20:29:59 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document the compat-mode settings. X-Git-Url: http://artulab.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a5e81eb65fef35aaa66ba196f25837181726016;p=openbsd Document the compat-mode settings. Thanks to Ingo for his help. ok schwarze@ --- diff --git a/share/man/man4/wsmouse.4 b/share/man/man4/wsmouse.4 index 66cfc0e9f07..b238b1bf7ef 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/wsmouse.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/wsmouse.4 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: wsmouse.4,v 1.19 2016/09/03 14:36:14 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: wsmouse.4,v 1.20 2018/02/04 20:29:59 bru Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: wsmouse.4,v 1.3 1999/12/06 14:52:08 augustss Exp $ .\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2018 Ulf Brosziewski .\" Copyright (c) 1999 .\" Matthias Drochner. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 4 2018 $ .Dt WSMOUSE 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -36,16 +37,18 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -driver is an abstraction layer for mice within the +driver is an abstraction layer for mice and other pointing devices within the .Xr wscons 4 framework. -It is attached to the hardware specific mouse drivers and +It is attached to the hardware specific drivers and provides a character device interface which returns .Fa struct wscons_event via .Xr read 2 . For use with X servers, .Dq mouse events +or +.Dq touch events can be generated. .Pp The @@ -55,6 +58,92 @@ driver provides a number of ioctl functions to control various parameters (see The .Xr wsconsctl 8 utility gives access to these variables. +.Pp +Touchpad input is processed in one of two modes: +In +.Dq absolute mode , +the +.Nm +driver generates touch events. +Absolute mode is activated by +.Xr synaptics 4 . +In +.Dq compatibility mode , +which is the default, +.Nm +converts the input internally and generates mouse events. +.Xr wsconsctl 8 +can query and set several configuration parameters for this mode. +The composite field names have the form +.Cm mouse Ns Oo Ar N Oc . Ns Cm tp . Ns Ar field +where +.Ar N +is the index of the +.Nm +device. +If +.Ar N +is omitted, commands apply to +.Pa /dev/wsmouse0 . +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Cm mouse.tp.tapping +Setting this parameter to a non-zero value enables tap gestures. +Contacts on the touchpad that are immediately released again +trigger click events. +One-finger, two-finger, and three-finger taps generate left-button, +right-button, and middle-button clicks, respectively. +If, within a short time interval, a second touch follows a one-finger +tap, the button-up event is not issued until that touch ends +.Pq Dq tap-and-drag . +.It Cm mouse.tp.scaling +The value is a scale coefficient that is applied to the relative +coordinates. +It determines the base speed of the pointer. +.It Cm mouse.tp.swapsides +If this parameter has a non-zero value, the order of software +button areas is inverted. +If edge scrolling is enabled, the scroll area is set up at the left +edge of the touchpad. +.It Cm mouse.tp.disable +A non-zero value disables pointer movement, tapping, and scrolling. +Software buttons (and external physical buttons) will work as usual. +.It Cm mouse.tp.edges +This field contains a list of four values that define the relative +sizes of the edge areas, in the order: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +.Sm off +.Ar top , right , bottom , left +.Sm on +.Ed +.Pp +The unit is percent of the total height of the touchpad surface, or +of its total width, respectively. +In order to mitigate the effects of accidental touches, the driver +ignores most types of input from an edge area (see below). +If an edge area contains software buttons, they fill up the space +provided. +.El +.Pp +The automatic configuration enables two-finger scrolling and sets up +edge areas at the vertical edges. +On clickpads - where the device surface serves as a single, large +button - it provides three software button areas at the bottom edge, +for left-button, middle-button, and right-button clicks. +On some laptops with a trackpoint, the software buttons are at the +top edge. +Vertical edge scrolling will be enabled on older touchpads that do not +report contact counts. +.Pp +A touch that starts and remains in an edge area does not trigger pointer +movement. +At the vertical edges and the top edge, tapping and two-finger scrolling +require that at least one touch is in the main area of the touchpad (the +exact behaviour of a single-touch device depends on its firmware in this +case). +When multi-touch input is available, a touch is ignored if it rests in +the bottom area while there are other inputs - movement, scrolling, or +tapping -, and the driver continues to ignore it as long as and whenever +other touches are present. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h -compact .It Pa /dev/wsmouse*