links now works fine; mouse doesn't?

[Brian Kelsay]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 08:44 am, Brian Densmore wrote:

> I have found that gpm and X don't play nice together.
> I remember reading somewhere to unload gpm before launching X.
> Maybe they have fixed that, but I know it used to be an issue.
> Anyway, logic dictates only one program can have physical
> control of the mouse at a time.

Not true.  My laptop has both a USB optical mouse and a touchpad and BOTH work equally INSIDE X 
with XFCE 4.  But, your problem may be, as Johnathan said, with gpm.   You may need to find and 
alternative to gpm or open links in a terminal that has gpm disabled if that is possible.   Either 
way, a good test would be to disable gpm and then run links to see if it has mouse controls built 
in.  And for X, you could have in your start up scripts to disable gpm in the tty that X runs in.   
Hope this makes sense.

Brian