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-First, you will need to get gpm: +First, you will need to get GPM:
-+# emerge gpmYou might have noticed a few messages during the compilation that warned about -configuring the server. You must do this before starting gpm. +configuring the server. You must do this before starting GPM.
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@- Configuring gpm +Configuring GPM -Before you can use gpm, you will need to uncomment the lines corresponding to -the location and protocol of your mouse. You do this by editing the gpm +Before you can use GPM, you will need to uncomment the lines corresponding to +the location and protocol of your mouse. You do this by editing the GPM configuration file:
-+# nano /etc/conf.d/gpm@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ example/etc/conf.d/gpm : -+(Please uncomment the type of mouse you have and the appropriate MOUSEDEV entry) #MOUSE=ps2 @@ -87,14 +87,14 @@If you have a wheelmouse, you will want to use the imps2 protocol, so uncomment -that line. If imps2 and ps2 both fail to work for you, please refer to the gpm +that line. If imps2 and ps2 both fail to work for you, please refer to the GPM info page (
info gpm ) for other protocols to try. Also, if you want to be able to click on hyperlinks in terminals to navigate to a website, it is a good idea to follow the suggestion in the/etc/conf.d/gpm file:-(Please uncomment this line if you want gpm to understand charsets + (Please uncomment this line if you want GPM to understand charsets used in URLs and names with ~ or : in them, etc. This is a good idea to turn on!) @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@- Running gpm +Running GPM @@ -121,18 +121,18 @@ using it: - +# /etc/init.d/gpm start-You should see a block cursor appear. Remember that only root can run the gpm +You should see a block cursor appear. Remember that only root can run the GPM init script. However, to avoid having to
-su and run the script every -single time you begin a new session, why not set gpm to begin every time you +single time you begin a new session, why not set GPM to begin every time you turn on your computer?+# rc-update add gpm default@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@- Working with gpm +Working with GPM Copying and pasting @@ -159,21 +159,21 @@ wish, position the cursor, and press the middle mouse button to paste the text where you placed the cursor. Note that you can copy and paste without ever leaving the terminal you started. This makes posting the output of error -messages to theGentoo forums +messages to theGentoo Forums extremely simple.- Text-mode browsing and gpm +Text-mode browsing and GPM If you have a message on one screen and a text-mode web browser on the other, you can copy the error message by highlighting it, then change to the other terminal, left-click the appropriate text entry box to select it, and then -press the middle mouse button. Voila! Your error message can now be posted to +press the middle mouse button. VoilĂ ! Your error message can now be posted to the forums.
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