From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A81B15838C for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57F7FE2A7A; Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.20]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0053AE2A74 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=cube.localnet) by smarthost01a.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1rSdvn-00CS6I-VY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:08:43 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards. Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:08:43 +0000 Message-ID: <6012061.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: e17d7537-b5ed-4123-96d8-7dcf9ff98894 X-Archives-Hash: b9d1960f27c170b1c94e9f3239215cce On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 10:00:37 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've adapted this patch for kernel 6.6.13. All of the parent post still > applies, with the exception of the version numbers. > > The main patch for the new kernel is 6.6.13-GPM.20240123.diff. > > Additionally I've attached a smaller patch which fixes what to me was a > little glitch in the gpm utility. This was that on a triple click to > select a whole line (or sequence of lines), the (last) line got a > linefeed appended to it. The effect was that if you wanted to hoik a > line out of some screen output and execute that from the bash command > line, you couldn't edit it first. So with this patch, you no longer get > that annoying linefeed, and the highlighting is adjusted accordingly. > This patch is (as far as I'm aware, without testing) independent of the > main GPM patch. Ever the star, Alan! -- Regards, Peter.