Installation

OpenBSD

$ doas pkg_add drawterm

Linux

Building from source on Debian

$ sudo apt install libx11-dev libxt-dev $ git clone git://git.9front.org/plan9front/drawterm $ cd drawterm $ CONF=unix make

See

https://cloud9p.org/usr/mkf/drawterm

for ready binaries for Linux and other OSes.

Usage

$ PASS=$YOURPASSWORD drawterm -h cloud9p.org -a cloud9p.org

If you add $USER=username

This will also pass on the username or use drawterm -u username to the above Replace $YOURPASSWORD with your actual password.

Using keyboard keys instead of mouse buttons

• Warning: Note that this disables numpad, and makes usage of old keys impossible without a X server restart* To use keyboard keys instead of a 3 button mouse in OpenBSD (on X11), first enable mosekey

$ doas pkg_add xkbset $ xkbset m # enables mousekeys

open xev, press on keys you like to use as mouse keys, be aware, this might make lots of spam in terminal.

$ xev -event keyboard

my key codes are 67, 68 and 69. (f1, f2 and f3):

$ xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = Pointer_Button1" $ xmodmap -e "keycode 68 = Pointer_Button2" $ xmodmap -e "keycode 69 = Pointer_Button3"

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