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- * Copyright 1994 rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it (Alessandro Rubini)
- *
- *******/
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- This package, which is almost ready to go 1.0, tries to be a useful
- mouse server for applications running on the Linux console. Its roots
- are in the "selection" package, by Andrew Haylett, and the original code
- comes from selection itself. This package is intended as
- a replacement for "selection", to provide additional facilities.
- From 0.18 onward gpm supports xterm as well, so you can run gpm-based
- applications under X, and you can easily write curses applications which
- support the mouse on both the Linux console and xterm. The xterm stuff is
- portable (look at sample/README).
-
- Available clients are "The Midnight Commander", by Miguel de Icaza
- and an emacs library included in this release. A demo dialog binary is
- on iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm, but I won't release it because it is going
- to fall in the mainstream dialog.
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- =========== QUICK INSTALL (no compile)
-
- Binaries are provided as well, and tou can tell your shell
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- make quickinst
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- to install under '/usr/{bin,lib,info,include}' and
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- make quickinst PREFIX=/usr/tools/whatever
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- to install to default locations.
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- =========== DOCS
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- The directory "./doc" holds the documentation. I have switched to
- 'texinfo', and it seems to work. The release embeds both a postscript
- file and an info one. I hope the 'info' file can be useful. No manual
- pages are provided, but they will be available before 1.0
-
- =========== KERNEL PATCHES (before 1.1.32)
-
- The directory "kernel" embeds the kernel patches needed to run gpm.
- Patches are provided against 1.0 and 1.1.18. Refer to kernel/README
- to have more details. No patch is needed for 1.1.32 onwards.
-
- =========== AVAILABILITY
-
- The latest release is available by ftp from iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm
- Feel free to call me to report/fix bugs. If you are willing to write
- a client I'd like to help as well.
-
- =========== CREDITS
-
- Steven S. Dick (ssd@nevets.oau.org) fixed a pair of bugs in early gpm
- versions.
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- Miguel de Icaza (miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx) helped fixing
- some bugs and provided a good client to test my server.
- He helped a lot in testing the various pre-releases.
-
- Olav Woelfelschneider (wosch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
- fixed 0.10 with MouseSystems compatible mice.
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- Janne Kukonlehto (jtklehto@stekt.oulu.fi) provided xterm mouse decoding to
- be stolen by me.
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- Rick Lyons (rick@razorback.brisnet.org.au) fixed a bug in gpm-0.9
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- Reuben Sumner (rasumner@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) helped fixing
- behaviour with "-t bm".
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- Larry Bartholdi (lbartho@scsun.unige.ch) pinpointed an error in t-mouse-suspend
- and provided good suggestions for 0.97
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- Mark Lord (mlord@bnr.ca) ported to Dexxa/Logitech mice and provided feedback
- several times.
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- Stefan Giessler (stg@gandalf.han.de) fixed some problems with gpm-root and
- suggested to put gpm in the background (0.97)
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