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

[Pavel Tsekov]

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.