Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

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Subject: Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management
From: Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:50:00 +0000
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, vincent.tournebise@free.fr wrote:
 
> Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in Emacs ??

Hi Vincent, links running in a terminal under X responds to mouse
actions. This is a result of mouse support in ncurses I believe. There's
some code floating around that provides mouse support in ncurses which
predates GPM I think, which resulted in confusion when running the two
together. You may find the following thread interesting:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/1999-04/msg00502.html

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