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Subject: Re: PATCH: GPM support
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Date: 27 May 1997 15:25:01 -0700
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A blurb about XTerm support from the GPM manual.

-Bill P.

   As of release 0.18, gpm-based applications can run under xterm
without any need for recompilation. The library is designed to convert
xterm mouse events to gpm-style structures, so that the client will get
the same events it got under the Linux console. Moreover, a source file
(gpm-xterm.c) is available to mimick libgpm under a different OS than
Linux. Porting to other text-based consoles is an open issue, but I
myself have Linux alone.

   The goal is to provide a uniform mouse interface with both xterm and
the Linux console. Some features of libgpm would not be available, but
if you run under xterm you know what you get, so you couldn't use them
on the console anyway.

   The sample directory in the distribution tree is meant to show how a
simple mouse-sensitive application can be easily autoconfigured and
compiled. The rmev program has proved to compile and run smoothly under
Linux (both with and without libgpm.a), SunOS-4, Solaris-5, hpux-8.x
and Ultrix-3.0.

