Re: mouse - gpm, X (was: Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?)

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:18, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
[...]
>
> Or spend 10 minutes now and be done with it.  Really.  Setting up gpm
> is very simple, and getting gpm and X to play together is equally as
> simple.  The steps go like this (copied from earlier posts of mine to
> this list) :
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg06012.html
> ----
> I can't emphasize it enough:
>
>     1)  stop X, get gpm working
>         1.a)    pick the right device (usually /dev/psaux)
>         1.b)    pick the right protocol (usually ps2 or imps2)
>         1.c)    repeat_type=raw
>         1.d)    start gpm, move mouse
>         1.e)    if this doesn't work, go back to 1.a!
[...]
> PS. Additional information :
>    
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg05826.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200201/msg01960.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg03414.html

I'm obviously being unusually thick here.  man gpm tells me nothing about 
configuration.  I read all the references you gave, but still have no idea 
how to configure gpm.  I have an empty file /etc/gpm.conf and a file 
called /etc/gpm-root.conf which I cannot understand, and which has no mention 
of protocol or device.  So I am still unclear how to configure it.  Mouse 
works fine in X -- it is only in console that it doesn't.

I do see your point about the change I'll need to make in X if I have gpm 
configured - thanks for that pointer.

And we are in the wrong thread for this...

-- 
richard