My Mouse Scrolling Not Working on 13

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michaelll

Hi! Recently I've tried freebsd, it is much more awesome than those linux distros, and I think this is what an unix-like OS should actually be. However, I've encounter some problems that are beyond my knowledge:
I've install the OS using VirtualBox, and VBox reports that "Mouse Integeration" is On, and with some configurations on /etc/rc.conf:

Code: 
# /etc/rc.conf
hostname=""
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
sshd_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"
zfs_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"

However when I ssh to it, all my man page cannot scroll up and down by my mouse scroll wheel. dmesg | grep mouse has no output, and 'dmesg | grep ps' has some weird output:

Code: 
# dmesg | grep ps
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0


Could anyone give some advices? Would be much appreciated!
 
michaelll said:
I've install the OS using VirtualBox, and VBox reports that "Mouse Integeration" is On, and with some configurations on /etc/rc.conf:
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Only relevant if you use the VirtualBox GUI to access the guest's console.

michaelll said:
However when I ssh to it, all my man page cannot scroll up and down by my mouse scroll wheel.
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This has nothing to do with the mouse settings on the FreeBSD guest.
 
SirDice said:
This has nothing to do with the mouse settings on the FreeBSD guest.
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Thanks for the reply!

Although this behavior might not be considered as a "normal behavior" in FreeBSD, it is a default setting across the multiple platforms that I've used (macOS, Linux distrOS).
In fact I just want to see some man pages for some syscall/stdlib API, really simple tasks for a developer, so what should I do to make my mouse scrolling available when looking through the man pages?
May I have some effective advices? Thanks!
 
man(1) uses less(1), strictly speaking it uses whatever the PAGER variable has been set to and PAGER is set to less(1) by default.

Code: 
       --mouse
              Enables mouse input: scrolling the mouse wheel down moves
              forward in the file, scrolling the mouse wheel up moves
              backwards in the file, and clicking the mouse sets the "#" mark
              to the line where the mouse is clicked.  The number of lines to
              scroll when the wheel is moved can be set by the --wheel-lines
              option.  Mouse input works only on terminals which support X11
              mouse reporting, and on the Windows version of less.

You might be able to set this by setting the LESS environment variable:
Code: 
       LESS   Options which are passed to less automatically.
 
SirDice said:
man(1) uses less(1), strictly speaking it uses whatever the PAGER variable has been set to and PAGER is set to less(1) by default.

Code: 
       --mouse
              Enables mouse input: scrolling the mouse wheel down moves
              forward in the file, scrolling the mouse wheel up moves
              backwards in the file, and clicking the mouse sets the "#" mark
              to the line where the mouse is clicked.  The number of lines to
              scroll when the wheel is moved can be set by the --wheel-lines
              option.  Mouse input works only on terminals which support X11
              mouse reporting, and on the Windows version of less.

You might be able to set this by setting the LESS environment variable:
Code: 
       LESS   Options which are passed to less automatically.
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So nice! Thanks! Really saved my day!!!
 
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