On Tuesday 05 February 2002 12:30 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] > > Unless you really have a need for the mouse in console mode, it's best > to get rid of gpm entirely. X's responsiveness to mouse events is > hindered by interposing an extra, unnecessary user process. There was > some interesting commentary on this on debian-devel recently by Jim > Gettys, who as one of the authors of X is better qualified than most to > judge such things. >
actually, i don't mind having it around while using mc. i used to be allergic to gpm, having found it to be the culprit in screwing up the installation process on a nest of rh boxes about four years back. this time around, it did actually provide a solution to a problem that had me stumped for days. also, i haven't really noticed any degradation in x due to the use of gpm. i will check the devel archives for that commentary. thanks for the tip.
