Re: gpm in standard or not [was: Re: interesting times installing 2.4.17 in Woody...]
Josip Rodin@lists.debian-devel@Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:50:22 +0100:
> I haven't seen a single system where gpm caused any damage.
>
I have. I had to use it for some time to get my middle mouse button working
in X, but it was very annoying. The mouse died several times a day (or one
of the mouse buttons stuck) and I had to restart gpm to get back the normal
state.
> If everybody is so inclined to deprecate gpm, please come up with a
> viable alternative before that, because I still want a copy&paste in the
> console. :)
>
What's wrong with 'apt-get install gpm'?
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