Re: trying to use gpm without X, having a little trouble

[Patrick]

On 14-10-20 05:14 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 01:53:03PM -0400, Patrick wrote:
> > I have mouse support enabled in my program and it's working great
> > under X. I took X down with ctrl-alt F1 and tried again with gpm
> > running it didn't work.
> >
> > I tried to recompile ncurses with a flag to specifically enable gpm:
> >
> > ./configure --with-gpm --enable-ext-colors --enable-ext-mouse --enable-widec
> >
> > but it doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > Should it have worked? I can just use the gpm calls but it would be
> > nice to use it through ncurses.
> I just tested with Debian/7, and it works for me.  Did you install the
> gpm development package for (whatever system you are using)?
Hi Thomas

Thanks for taking time out of your day to test this. I am on Mint and it 
seems that gpm is broken here(probably lots of other stuff too!).

BTW gpm does not look to be in good shape. The maintainer has stated he 
has lost interest in the project and says it is being dropped by many 
distros.

I am just doing some xcb test right now and I have posted to freedesktop 
for help. If I came up with a little piece of code that would track 
mouse positions by columns and rows under X, would it be possible to 
merge the code at some point ?

Perhaps there could be a configure option to enable mouse-under-X. This 
would eliminate the problem with mouse co-ordinates not being reported 
past 213 for people who are running under X. The project could still 
default to gpm and the 213 limit.

I am also trying to red the gpm source. It's very small at under 2K 
lines but it's tricky and I am struggling.

Thanks again-Patrick