Mouse support bugs and a couple of feature requests (fwd)

[Pavel Tsekov]

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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:03:52 -0400
From: Stephan Sokolow
To: Pavel Tsekov
Subject: Re: Mouse support bugs and a couple of feature requests

On Monday September 4, 2006 05:15, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Stephan Sokolow wrote:
>> First, the bug:
>> 1. Running mc inside screen at the Linux console prevents gpm mouse
>> support from working.
>
> Seems to be a gpm problem. See what I've got in my syslog:
>
> *** warning [client.c(183)]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 500 for vc 0
>
> I ran MC under debugger in linux console both with screen and in plain
> console. When I am not running screen everything is normal. If I start
> screen I get the above message both in syslog and printed on the console
> ... but the Gpm_Open() call doesn't report error. I'll try to research why
> this happens but it is obvious that this problem is not MC related.

Fair enough. However, there's still the matter of MC requiring an explicit -x
switch to get mouse support in a Yakuake/Konsole-->screen stack. Any
suggestions for how I might track down the problem?

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