This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the General Purpose Mouse Interface utility. The general purpose mouse daemon tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console. This package was put together by me, James Troup , from the sources, which I obtained from The changes were minor :- - adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding various debian/* files. - gpm.c (processConn): type of socket length changed (size_t -> socklen_t). - debuglog.c: #include to quiet -Wall. - doc/Makefile.in (maintainer-clean): clean without interaction and clean all relevant files (i.e. gpm.info-{1,2}). - doc/Makefile.in: add support for mouse-test.1. The following changes were thought of and done mostly by François Gouget ; though I didn't apply his patches as they were for various reasons: - gpn.c (cmdline): modified handling of -t command line argument, so it can be used by anyone regardless of whether or not a copy of gpm is already running. - gpn.c (usage): update for new -t option "types". - mice.c: improved descriptions of mouse types. - mice.c (M_listMice): function used by -t help, reworked version of old M_listTypes. - mice.c (M_listTypes): function used by -t types; lists only mnemonics. (1.10-1 -> 1.10-6): Modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Martin Schulze (1.10-7 and onwards): Modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 James Troup gpm - General Purpose Mouse Interface is copyrighted: Copyright 1993 ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk (Andrew Haylett) Copyright 1994-1998 rubini@linux.it (Alessandro Rubini) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the Debian GNU/Linux gpm source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.