[BRLTTY] GPM support

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Aug 20 12:41:17 EDT 2006


Dave Mielke, le Sun 16 Jul 2006 23:28:42 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/07/16 at 20:36 +0200]
> 
> >Is there any reason for not enabling GPM support by default? (not
> >setting the "window follows mouse" or "mouse follows window" preference
> >by default, but at least the GPM support).  
> 
> The feature is incomplete and I haven't yet taken the time to figure out how to
> finish (fix) it. The problem is that "Pointer Follows Window" doesn't work
> correctly. The GPM function which it uses does redraw the pointer in the new
> place, but GPM's knowledge of where the poitner is isn't updated.

>From reading the documentation and source code, it looks like this is
what is expected: there is (currently) no way to really change the
position of the cursor.

Maybe we can ask for such feature.

Samuel


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