[BRLTTY] GPM support

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

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.

Ah, this is a problem for a non-sighted user who wants to use the mouse
for moving on the screen indeed.  But as such, the current GPM code is
already much useful for the case when only a sighted user uses it (and
the non-synchronization problem is not really an issue here).

Samuel