[Gpm] p logitec having short freezes & future of gpm

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Alessandro Rubini wrote:

> > Yes, but I'm often switching between X and console, especially on my
> > laptop, where X is slow. And I need the mouse for copy-pasting in both.
>
> If you don't repeat, gpm will close the mouse device when the current
> tty is in graphics mode. It has been doing this since version 0.01
> (repeasing was added later, as of 0.95 or so). So no problem: you run
> a simple protocol on text mode (as most new protocols are supersets of
> ms or ps2), and then you run whatever protocol you want in X, with
> direct mouse access.

I just checked that. It works perfectly, thanks. I'll do a
Logitec-wheelmouse-with-gpm-and-X-HOWTO I guess.

*t

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