How to use mouse with mc in console

[Peter Hugosson-Miller]

Still plodding on alone, as no-one here seems to have any suggestions.
I have compared the broken system with one in which gpm and mc work
well together. Everything looks the same except for two things:

First this:

#ls -l /dev/gpm*
srwxrwxrwx    1 root   root            0 Apr  9 16:45 /dev/gpmctl
prw-r--r--    1 root   root            0 Apr  9 16:47 /dev/gpmdata

Note the "p" in front of the gpmdata entry, and the fact that it has
a size of 0 (compare the result below).

Then there's this:

#cat /dev/gpmctl
cat: /dev/gpmctl: Invalid argument

Again, compare the result below.

I hope this might trigger a spark of understanding, and maybe even
lead to a suggestion to a solution.

> I have some more information that may be useful for analysing this
> problem:
>
> When I start gpm, a new device /dev/gpmctl appears as follows:
>
> #ls -l /dev/gpm*
> srwxrwxrwx   1   root   root          0 Apr  4 13:25    /dev/gpmctl
> -rw-r--r--   1   root   root         84 Mar 17 17:36    /dev/gpmdata
>
> If I try to read it manually (by using cat), I get the following:
> #cat /dev/gpmctl
> cat: /dev/gpmctl: No such device or address
>
> I have also tried using the shift key to see if this might enable the
> mouse functions, but there is no difference.
>
>
> > I want to run mc in a console using the mouse, and I can't find out
> > how to do it.
> >
> > I have read the documentation, which says that I should use gpm. I do
> > have gpm running and it is working fine:
> >
> > # gpm -v
> > gpm 1.19.6, Thu Oct  4 00:21:21 CEST 2001
> >
> > $ ps -ef | grep gpm
> > root       486     1  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m
> > /dev/psaux -t ps2
> >
> > Here is some other version information:
> >
> > $ uname -r
> > 2.4.18
> >
> > $ mc -V
> > GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55
> > Edition: text mode
> > Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs
> > With builtin Editor
> > Using S-Lang library with terminfo database
> > With subshell support as default
> > With support for background operations
> > With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
> > Using locale "C" (from environment variable LANG)
> >
> > I start the midnight (mouseless) commander from a console as follows:
> >
> > $ mc
> >
> > As far as I can see, everything is set up as it should be, but still
> > mc does not react to the mouse as much as I would expect. I can use
> > the mouse in mc's built in editor to cut and paste, but that's just
> > about all it will do.
> >
> > In the help documentation it says that I should be able to use the mc
> > menus, select and run files, or cd into directories, all by using the
> > mouse. If I click on a file or directory, the selected line in mc does
> > not change, and if I double click then all that happens is that the
> > text is highlighted. If I right click with some text highlighted, then
> > it gets pasted into the command line.
> >
> > What steps can I take to troubleshoot this problem, or if I have
> > missed out some important information, what more could I provide to help
> > analyse the problem?

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