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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: ache@nagual.ru, andreas@klemm.gtn.com
Subject: Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added...
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>> 	echo -n ' moused'
>> 	vidcontrol -m on
>> 	( sleep 5; moused -p ${mouseport} -t ${mousetype}) &

>Your error is here: vidcontrol works on per-tty basis,
>not for all ttys at once.
>You must add "vidcontrol -m on" to your .login

vidcontrol works on stdin, but most of the things it sets apply to all ttys
at once.  -m is the main exception.

moused at least needs to go to sleep while X is running, so that it doesn't
compete with X reading input from the same tty.

Bruce