Re: The quest for rodent power

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:24:22PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl> writes:
> ...
>> Its not clear what you want to know here.  I just ran the same test
>> again.  There is about a 1 second delay before the prompt comes back
>> and prints the odd message.
>> Alarm Clock
>
> It was the one sec delay that I was after:)  So it's similar to what
> happens here including that `Alarm clock' message.  BUT I only get
> that behaviour when an other gpm instance is running.  Weird.

Can you see the other gpm in ps output before running the test?

Is it possible for gpm to be running in the background and not show up
in ps output?

Does the fact that running the bare gpm command produces 3 lines of
reverse video in the center of my console, as if hilighted by a mouse
indicate anything special to you?