[arch-general] only root can select/copy text using gpm

[Kwpolska]

On Tuesday, August 30, 2011, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:19:02 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>
>> I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse
>> works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log
>> as root.
>>
>> When I open another tty and login there as a normal user, the mouse
>> cursor is available. I mean, it is visible and moves as desired. But I
>> can neither select nor copy anything, since drugging does not work.
>>
>> The whole point of installing gpm for me was to facilitate the use of
>> Arch Wiki sources and instead of typing large pieces just copying and
>> pasting them. Having this problem I would be forced to run 'links' in a
>> root environment that does not seem very safe to me.
>>
>> Is there any solution for this, please?
>
> Sorry for misleading you folks.
>
> I've just figured I was wrong. gpm works as expected in both root and
> user consoles. This is 'links' that for some reason does not allow me
> copying text using mouse.
>
> I'm looking into it right now. I'm probably missing some library or
> something like this.
>
> But as per the subject it's a kind of solved. :-)
>
>
I think that links uses the mouse for control (not tested, using elinks
since a while).

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