On 5/27/21 2:14 PM, IL Ka wrote:


"gpm" ?


I believe this is a mouse server for the virtual terminal running in the
virtual console (aka "text mode")
X11 uses its own mouse drivers. In modern versions they are based on
libinput.

There are several types of "clipboard" in X11: one is called "PRIMARY
selection" and another is "CLIPBOARD" itself:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/139193


Ya, I was thinking of the console. It's good to have you and Greg to keep me on track. I have spent most of my life wandering about in the darkness depending upon others to shine a little light at me now and then.

;-)

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