Re: Mouse support bugs and a couple of feature requests (fwd)

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Stephan Sokolow wrote:

> On Monday September 4, 2006 08:57, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > Screen uses a pseudo-terminal pair to communicate with the shells it
> > starts. As such when you start MC it is running on the pseudo terminal
> > slave device - /dev/pts/1 for example. It is screen that is running on
> > the virtual console device (the real terminal) and not MC. gpm cannot
> > handle mouse events on anything other than Linux virtual console. So
> > requests from MC for mouse events on /dev/pts/1 should fail ... but
> > there is a patch in the RedHat version of gpm that removes a check which
> > is supposed to catch that condition. I guess you are using Fedora, right ?
>
> Gentoo, actually.

I've just checked the Gentoo patches to gpm. The check I speak of
is not disabled on Gentoo, but the message it is supposed to output
is suppressed. This is done by the 09_all_logfillup.patch. In any case
what you want to do won't work.