On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:11:12 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/17/08 21:44, s. keeling wrote: > > Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I have to admit that even in X I have several consoles always open as > >> they can make things work a lot better. I don't switch to the console for > >> two reasons, I do use some X apps (I prefer to browse with firefox, and > >> even that is not always enough due to badly written pages) and the second > >> is that I like mouse copy/paste and I don't feel like setting up the mouse > >> for the console. > > > > Not to mention, gpm config is a black art. I have no clue how to gpm > > my mouse, and haven't for years. > > The Shame, oh The Shame! > > > I knew how long ago, but gpm is not > > easy these days. > > Time to install Vista... > Wouldn't do it if my life depended on it ;-) > > What protocol does a three button, serial, logitech > > mouse use? None of what I've tried work. M/N:M-M35? > > I played with it at the time but I still have the trauma of trying to properly configure gpm to work with the touch pad and an external mouse and make all this cooperate with X while keeping the scrolling feature of synaptic in X and allow the external mouse to be hotplugable. I guess I'm scared of trying to integrate the previous with a bluetooth mouse ... > $ apt-cache show mdetect > Package: mdetect > Priority: optional > Section: utils > Installed-Size: 40 > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 0.5.2.1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) > Filename: pool/main/m/mdetect/mdetect_0.5.2.1_i386.deb > Size: 16516 > MD5sum: 0efa44bd926f8d9782b601c3cc8ab20d > SHA1: fe27a7d522abece6f6fdb1b7bb84fd77c2df08a4 > SHA256: 97d50dd128e444c98aae7e118c03c878df4ff7aa7414048af7fb0b930ba3e702 > Description: mouse device autodetection tool > mdetect is a tool for autoconfiguring mice; it is typically used > as the > backend to some user-friendly frontend code. mdetect writes the > autodetected > mouse device and protocol (as used by gpm) to standard output. It > can be > invoked so as to produce output appropriate for XFree86 X server > configuration files. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
