[SOLVED] How to add the mouse cursor to the (login) Terminal?

BW-userx · 11-20-2018, 08:23 AM

so I got this issue that manjaro will not boot due to some UUID check on one of my partitions it stops on the big black screen where it asks for root password ctrl + D, terminal, that one.

The line is so long I do not want to try and write all of that out, so, like Slackware in all of its forethought, it already has mouse support so one can select then MMB click to paste in the login terminal.

how do I add that support to Manjaro so it will always be there, so I can try and resolve this issue with my partition and still have mouse support for further issues that may arise?

ps I just go in and comment out the UUID then boot into my distro, btw, then mount it in there and nothing bad comes up using mount -a

BW-userx · 11-20-2018, 08:49 AM

Ok,

that didn't seem to hard,

Code:

sudo pacman -S gmp

userx@manjaroieo:~
$ su
Password: 
[manjaroieo userx]# systemctl status gpm
● gpm.service - Virtual console mouse server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gpm.service; disabled; vendor preset>
   Active: inactive (dead)
[manjaroieo userx]# systemctl start gpm.service
[manjaroieo userx]# systemctl status gpm.service
● gpm.service - Virtual console mouse server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gpm.service; disabled; vendor preset>
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-11-21 08:49:47 CST; 9s ago
  Process: 8072 ExecStart=/usr/bin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 (code=exited>
 Main PID: 8073 (gpm)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 236.0K
   CGroup: /system.slice/gpm.service
           └─8073 /usr/bin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2

Nov 21 08:49:47 manjaroieo systemd[1]: Starting Virtual console mouse server...
Nov 21 08:49:47 manjaroieo /usr/bin/gpm[8073]: *** info [daemon/startup.c(136)]:
Nov 21 08:49:47 manjaroieo /usr/bin/gpm[8073]: Started gpm successfully. Entere>
Nov 21 08:49:47 manjaroieo systemd[1]: Started Virtual console mouse server.
Nov 21 08:49:48 manjaroieo /usr/bin/gpm[8073]: *** info [mice.c(1990)]:
Nov 21 08:49:48 manjaroieo /usr/bin/gpm[8073]: imps2: Auto-detected intellimous>
[manjaroieo userx]# systemctl enable gpm.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/gpm.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/gpm.service.
[manjaroieo userx]# exit
exit

now to test it.

BW-userx · 11-20-2018, 09:02 AM

well that didn't work, so ahhh stupid, anyways, I just ran gparted check on it , and rebooted, it fixed that issue. get a mouse if I boot completely into system thought,but blah ... a lot of good that does me.