[gpm] wheelmouse up event not propagated?

[Alessandro Rubini]

> 1) gpm gets turned off whenever I start X
> 2) gpm gets turned on whenever I ctrl-alt-F* switch to text-console
> 3) gpm gets turned off whenever I alt-F7 switch back to X
> 4) gpm gets turned on whenever X does end
> 5) gpm's copy&paste buffer can get saved and loaded at each exit and restart

This is the gpm behaviour since the beginning of the world. Only
if you enable -R it won't shut up when in graphics mode but will it
switch to act as a repeater.

Without -R gpm checks the console mode every pair of seconds, and if
it is in graphics mode it closes the mouse fd, reopening and
reinitializing it when the current console is text.

This may well not work nowadays, I don't know. I have a few computers
with repeater mode but with most of them I simply don't use often text
mode any more.

Actually, I run X to have _more_ text mode windows at the same time
than what the bare console offers; most of my real computers are
simply headless, with a serial console and a network connection.

/alessandro, original author/maintainer of gpm, based on previous "selection"
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