> 1) gpm gets turned off whenever I start X > 2) gpm gets turned on whenever I ctrl-alt-F* switch to text-console > 3) gpm gets turned off whenever I alt-F7 switch back to X > 4) gpm gets turned on whenever X does end > 5) gpm's copy&paste buffer can get saved and loaded at each exit and restart This is the gpm behaviour since the beginning of the world. Only if you enable -R it won't shut up when in graphics mode but will it switch to act as a repeater. Without -R gpm checks the console mode every pair of seconds, and if it is in graphics mode it closes the mouse fd, reopening and reinitializing it when the current console is text. This may well not work nowadays, I don't know. I have a few computers with repeater mode but with most of them I simply don't use often text mode any more. Actually, I run X to have _more_ text mode windows at the same time than what the bare console offers; most of my real computers are simply headless, with a serial console and a network connection. /alessandro, original author/maintainer of gpm, based on previous "selection" - Alessandro Rubini, free software specialist. Device drivers, embedded systems, courses. http://ar.linux.it/ _______________________________________________ gpm mailing list gpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/gpm