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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-f or-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mouse on text mode (gpm ?) Date: 15 Oct 1995 11:14:12 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <45qmtk$ins@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <NEWTNews.813635786.20761.jalvarez@sundev.uno.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <jalvarez@uno.com> wrote: > >Is there something in FreeBSD to get the mouse coordinates and/or >movements from text mode applications ? I am looking for something >similar to the 'gpm' utility on Linux. Possibly someone has ported >'gpm' to FreeBSD ? It's not a question of "porting" some utility, it's the lack of this functionality in the console driver(s), and the lack of a generic mouse driver inside the operating system. (The X servers contain their own mouse drivers.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)