Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?
Sure, just set up x to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device, and X will use gpm to
run the mouse. There's no conflict that way. It's also a little bit easier
sometimes to configure the mouse in X if you've already got a working gpm.
Steve Juranich wrote:
> I was able to trace down a problem with my mouse (it was dead) back to gpm.
> It seems that gpm was being a bully and wouldn't let X play with the mouse.
> To solve the problem, I just killed gpm.
>
> I don't use gpm all that much, so I doubt that I'll even miss it. However,
> it seems that both of them should be able to use the mouse at the same time.
>
> Could somebody plaase tell me how I can run gpm and X run at the same time?
>
> TIA
>
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