On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:32:32PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:33:06PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> > Brimhall> 1. gpm - usually need to configure the mouse
> > Brimhall> settings. However, lately I have been finding I
> > Brimhall> automatically always run X so I *wish* that gpm was not
> > Brimhall> installed by default !
> >
> > I wish that gpm would by default create /dev/gpmdata and use -R. The
> > X stuff could see the fifo and skip mouse config altogether.
>
> No, that doesn't work right. The only way it does work is if you use the
> new raw setting, in which case X would still have to be configured or
> read gpm's config.
Errrm, it works fine for /ME/..
And it will probably become the default if I adopt the gpm package,
though there is one other person interested in it, so he may get the
package in the end..
Zephaniah E. Hull.
>
> Of course, if we start storing hardware config info in /etc for things
> like the mouse, both could use the same data right? In theory.
>
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