>> -3 just tells gpm it's a 3-button mouse, -p makes the cursor visible >> while selecting in the console. > > Ok, 3-button mouse worked anyway for me. It's an old option. ps2 mice can have two or three buttons (but it may apply to other mice as well). If you have two buttons, right button is "paste". If you have three, middle button is "paste". Gpm assumes you have two buttons until the middle button is pressed; if this happens, it assumes you have three. Unless you force with -2 or -3. Clicking both is hairy for 2b people, but behacing differently in text than in X is hairy for 3b people. From back when most mice had two buttons, and a few lucky ones had the third. /alessandro