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I'm trying to read mouse buttons from the console without success. According to man console_codes the Linux console has X10 mouse reporting. This means that after enabling it (printf "\e[?9h") pressed button + mouse position should be reported on stdin with:

\e[M b x y

where b is pressed button + 32 and x, y are mouse coords.

No luck, this only works with xterm alikes. I'm not the only one, please see:

http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/freebsd/mouse_events_shell.html

"...Surprisingly, since I read about mouse tracking in a Linux console_codes man page, these escape codes do not work in any Linux console that I have tried..."

Has anybody tried this with success? Is this a bug?

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stdin? You mean stdout. – new123456 Jul 25 '11 at 17:30
Nope, it's stdin, console driver injects \e[M b x y to stdin head, so as to be read by the application. That's how mouse reporting works. – francesc Jul 25 '11 at 21:52

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