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. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
