Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management
Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
no - links (and elinks/links2) doesn't use any features from ncurses.
The part where gpm links to ncurses serves no useful purpose.
I modified ncurses a few months ago to provide gpm support in spite of that.
> 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
I'd forgotten about that, will reexamine for useful bits.
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