> But the strace above reports a permission problem, try to run mev as > root. The original problem was "gpm clients work as root and not as normal user". It's not a mev problem, mev is just the diagnostic tool I suggested to use. That's what mev is for, actually. So the problem is in gpm that is not working as a mouse server but only as a cut-and-paste tool. But it wasn't meant to be only cut-and-paste, we already had selection when I started gpm. > You should give it a try, you'll never want to miss it. No, thanks. My computers are small and customized. I want to control my /dev, and don't want to get mad with hd naming. /alessandro