On Tuesday, August 30, 2011, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:19:02 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse >> works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log >> as root. >> >> When I open another tty and login there as a normal user, the mouse >> cursor is available. I mean, it is visible and moves as desired. But I >> can neither select nor copy anything, since drugging does not work. >> >> The whole point of installing gpm for me was to facilitate the use of >> Arch Wiki sources and instead of typing large pieces just copying and >> pasting them. Having this problem I would be forced to run 'links' in a >> root environment that does not seem very safe to me. >> >> Is there any solution for this, please? > > Sorry for misleading you folks. > > I've just figured I was wrong. gpm works as expected in both root and > user consoles. This is 'links' that for some reason does not allow me > copying text using mouse. > > I'm looking into it right now. I'm probably missing some library or > something like this. > > But as per the subject it's a kind of solved. :-) > > I think that links uses the mouse for control (not tested, using elinks since a while). -- -- Kwpolska (http://kwpolska.co.cc) stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:
