Thanks for the reply, Brandon. I'll see if I can get it working through xterm as a weekend project for myself.
Best wishes to all. Jeff. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Friedman <friedmanje...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I tried to install the Links browser, with the intention of using it with >> graphics enabled, but it didn't work. I have the following Ports installed >> - http://pastebin.com/1zn3pYRy >> >> I also wanted to try and get it working with the mouse but I see that >> libgpm isn't available on Macports. >> > > libgpm is only useful with the console on Linux and FreeBSD. You don't get > that kind of console on OS X, and libgpm does nothing at all to interface > with xterm mouse mode, which is what you want to enable. (However I don't > know what terminal emulators on OS X [other than xterm from XQuartz] > support it.) > > In fact, it looks like graphics and mouse will only work if you run it in > an X11 terminal emulator such as xterm, and you need to install the +x11 > variant to get that. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
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