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CONSOLATION(8) System Administration Utilities CONSOLATION(8)

NAME


consolation -- copy-paste for the Linux console

SYNOPSIS


consolation [libinput options]

DESCRIPTION


Consolation is a daemon that provide copy-paste and scrolling support to the
Linux console.


It is based on the libinput library and supports all pointer devices and
settings provided by this library,


Similar software include gpm and jamd.


Operations:
left button: start selection
middle button: paste selection
right button: set end of selection
wheel: scroll
double left click: select word
(see --word-chars for the definition of a word.)
triple left click: select line


Button actions can be redefined with the --map 'button=action' option.
Action names are 'select', 'paste', 'endselect'.
Button names are 'BTN_LEFT', 'BTN_MIDDLE', 'BTN_RIGHT'.
Other evdev button names are also supported.


By default, if the terminal requests mouse report, mouse actions
are reported to the terminal instead of being performed.


It supports all the standard libinput options.

Specifying a seat ID is optional.

Features:

These options apply to all applicable devices, if a feature is not explicitly specified it is left at each device's default.

Other options:

Ranges (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 etc.) are allowed.

LICENSE


Copyright © 2016 Bill Allombert


This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

HOMEPAGE


https://salsa.debian.org/consolation-team/consolation/

AUTHOR


Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>

SEE ALSO


gpm(8)

August 2022 Debian