Tip Of The Day: module-assistant and cursor tracking

[Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>]

Hi.

I just played with module-assistant (a package to ease
building of kernel module packages) the first time.  By default, it
uses dialog, which we already know does not provide any
useable cursor tracking for us braille/speech reader people.

However, there is a simple solution to get cursor tracking going:
module-assistant checks the environment variable DIALOG for the dialog/whiptail
executable path.  So you can do something like:

export DIALOG=/usr/bin/whiptail

before lauching module-assistant, and cursor tracking will work fine.

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