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GNU Info (gpm.info)OverviewOverview ******** The "gpm" package is a mouse server for the Linux console. It is meant to provide cooked mouse events to text-only applications, such as editors and simple menu-based apps. The daemon is also able to repeat packets in "msc" format to a graphic application. This last feature is meant to override the single-open problem of busmice. The roots of `gpm' come from the `selection-1.5' package, by Andrew Haylett. The first application to support the mouse has been The Midnight Commander, by Miguel de Icaza. `mc-0.11' and later releases offer mouse support if you have the mouse server running on your system. The file `t-mouse.el' provides support for using the mouse from within Emacs. Note: Emacs Support. As of release 0.96, a default-handler is released with gpm, and can be used to handle Control-Mouse events to draw menus on the screen. The `gpm-root' program, however, needs kernel 1.1.73 or newer. Note: gpm-root. Release 1.00 has been an incompatible one (is is incompatible with releases older than 0.97), but is compatible with the kernel-level mouse driver (available as `kmouse-?.??.tar.gz' from the mirrors of `ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu'. With 1.0 the high level library is available, together with a demonstration/test program. A small utility to help in detecting your mouse-type is also included. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |