From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 15:44:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA14797 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 15:44:15 -0700 Received: from temptation.interlog.com (temp@temptation.interlog.com [198.53.146.54]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA14791 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 15:43:57 -0700 Received: (from temp@localhost) by temptation.interlog.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA21818; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 18:41:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 18:41:08 -0400 From: Temptation Subject: Re: cursor To: Sean Kelly cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506052203.AA11362@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Jun 1995, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Alex" == Isildur writes: > > Alex> Is the selection and cursos routines gonna be in FreeBSD > Alex> like it is in linux? > I don't know what cursos is, never heard of it. but this is selection - gpm - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles DESCRIPTION This package, which is currently beta quality, tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console. It is heavily based on the "selection" package, by Andrew Haylett, and quite a good deal of code comes from selection itself. This package is intended as a replacement for "selection", to provide additional facili- ties. gpm isn't needed if you don't run text-based appli- cations with mouse support. AUTHORS Andrew Haylett Alessandro Rubini it doesn't work that great, and you usually have to kill it, if you want to run X. > I don't know. What are the `selection' and `cursos' routines? > > Alex> I'm about to switch to linux and that's one of the main > Alex> reasons. I thought that was funny too :) > > Then you'll want to change your signature to ``FreeBSD sux! Linux > RULES!!!!'' > > Alex> Alex 'The //Other// Enlightened One' Dunbar |||||| Son of Don > Alex> --- + Tolkien + Star Wars + MST3k + eggdrop botz + TinyTIM = Fun! > Alex> -- Linux sux! FreeBSD RULES!!!!! -- > > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA > > If you're a circus clown, and you have a dog that you use in your act, > I don't think it's a good idea to also dress the dog up like a clown, > because people see that and they think, "Forgive me, but that's just > too much." -- Jack Handey >