On Wed, 16 May 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
> Recent gpm versions (or maybe it's done this all along) will release the
Judging from observer behaviour, I would guess that it has not done this
all along.
> mouse when you're not in X. I've got a couple systems with PS/2 mice, and
> gpm/X don't have any problems interacting. Both X and gpm are reading from
> /dev/psaux.
Fine. Is this the case in potato? Or was it introduced in the woody
package?
> If you don't believe this, then use strace on GPM, and observe that it
> close(2)s the mouse device when you switch back to X, and reopens it when
I have no reason to disbelieve you, but until such time as all psaux
grabbing software is this considerate, it's still a good thing to know,
yes?
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