On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Damon Andrew Wasson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Billy Bushong - Concord, NH wrote:
> >
> > gpm -k
> >
> > before running doom
> >
>
> how come gpm -k helps to run doom? according to the man page, -k kills the
> mouse. Is this because doom has its own mouse driver? if so, is there a
> way to alter doom's configuration so that this doen't need to be typed
> every time?
A much cleaner way on RH is to do this:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm stop
/usr/games/quake2/quake2
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm start
Just put this in a shellscript (add "#!/bin/sh" at the top) and put that
in /usr/local/bin as for example "q2".
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