Mouse input in the Linux console

[devzero0]

First off, amazing library and thanks for creating this.

Have you checked closed issues? https://github.com/Textualize/textual/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
Yes

Please give a brief but clear explanation of the issue.
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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[willmcgugan]

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!

[devzero0]

BTW I stumbled upon a workaround by using LCXterm which, among other things, converts GPM mouse events into the X10 mouse protocol.

[trav-c]

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
• Switch to xterm-style mouse reporting telmich/gpm#29