Re: tlug: Linux mouse action (was win98 source)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Christopher Sekiya wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > gpm has no effect under X.
> 
> Not exactly true.
> 
> One can use gpm as a sort of mouse server for X.  Set the XF86Config to
> /dev/gpmdata as type MouseSystems, and feed gpm the -R flag.  Really
> useful when I switch between quake2, console, and X -- everything is being
> handled by gpm, so my mouse won't mysteriously stop working when the X
> mouse handler stomps on quake (or vice versa).
> 
> -- Chris

very interesting, I didn't know that.

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