Textualize
Mouse input in the Linux console
First off, amazing library and thanks for creating this.
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Can Textual handle mouse input in the Linux console, i.e. without X Windows? I tried using gpm but mouse input is ignored.
What Operating System are you running on? Debian Bullseye 32-bit (Raspbian) on a Raspberry Pi 4
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I'm testing with the sample app python -m textual
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Glad you like Textual.
It should be possible to make Textual work under the Linux console. It may be that gpm uses a different escape mechanism for mouse coords.
We will look in to it!
BTW I stumbled upon a workaround by using LCXterm which, among other things, converts GPM mouse events into the X10 mouse protocol.
From what I've been able to find gpm does not provide mouse events via escape codes at all, but rather requires applications to explicitly connect to the gpm daemon via a unix domain socket and read the mouse events from there.
See
info gpm -n 'Gpm Internals'and/or http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/info2www?(gpm)Gpm+Internals- https://github.com/telmich/gpm/issues/29
+1, this would be a great feature for certain embedded use cases where there is a touch screen available and no exposed ports for a keyboard. For example to make a configuration/management/diagnostic tool that runs before the proper gui can be loaded.
