/*
* README -- gpm 1.xx
*
* Copyright 1995-2000 rubini@linux.it (Alessandro Rubini)
* Copyright 2001,2002 nico-gpm@schottelius.org (Nico Schottelius)
*
*******/
The gpm (general purpose mouse) daemon tries to be a useful mouse
server for applications running on the Linux console. Its roots are
in the "selection" package, by Andrew Haylett, and the original code
comes from selection itself. This package is intended as a replacement
for "selection", to provide additional facilities. From 0.18 onward
gpm supports xterm as well, so you can run mouse-sensitive
applications under X, and you can easily write curses applications
which support the mouse on both the Linux console and xterm. The xterm
code is portable to any U*x flavour (look at sample/README).
The first clients have been "The Midnight Commander", by Miguel de
Icaza and an emacs library included in this release. Recent dialog
distributions and the Jed editor use gpm as well, and the same do
several custom applications.
There are still some new features to add (f.i. clean devfs support).
Some of gpm's code needs a cleanup.
If you want to make a patch to gpm, please read doc/HACK_GPM.
For additionally documentation and other READMEs have a look into doc/.
=========== MAINTENANCE
As of 1.19.4, gpm is officially maintained again. Most of the README is written
by Alessandro Rubine, only minor changes are made by me.
=========== MAILING LIST
The mailing list devoted to gpm is "gpm@lists.linux.it"
The list is managed by Mailman and is currently open,
so non-subscribers are allowed to post.
In order to subscribe to the mailing list, visit
http://www.linux.it/mailman/listinfo/gpm or send a message
with "subscribe" in its body to gpm-request@lists.linux.it . For example:
echo subscribe | mail gpm-request@lists.linux.it
=========== DOWNLOAD / HOMEPAGE
The latest releases can always be found in one of the following places:
ftp://arcana.linux.it/pub/gpm
ftp://ftp.linux.it/pub/People/rubini/gpm/
http:// or ftp://ftp.schottelius.org/pub/linux/gpm
Currently there is no homepage for gpm available.
You can get the latest cvs tree of gpm:
$ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@ar.linux.it:/data/cvs login
(Logging in to cvs@ar.linux.it)
CVS password: (type "cvs" here)
$ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@ar.linux.it:/data/cvs checkout gpm
=========== COMPILING AND INSTALLING
The package uses autoconf as of 2.12. Use "./configure && make" to
compile the gpm suite. To install "make install". This installs
everything under the "prefix" directory, which by default is
/usr/local.
Use "./configure --prefix=/usr" if you want to install under /usr
instead of /usr/local.
Exectuable files are installed in $(prefix)/bin (except the gpm daemon
in $(prefix)/sbin), libraries in $(prefix)/lib, man pages in
$(prefix)/man, the lisp library in the proper location for emacs-list
files (detected during the "configure" step); info files are installed
under $(prefix)/info.
If you would like to 'clean'up very tidy, use distclean. Don't forget to use
make distclean config! Otherwise there will be no configure script!
If any errors occur, please report them to me. Something like this
could be an easy (though brutal) way to do it:
make clean;(uname -a; make) | mail -s "gpm compile err." nicos-gpm@pcsystems.de
What remains to do after installation is a little configuration
=========== CONFIGURING
Configuration is optional...
* You would like to tell emacs to use t-mouse.el when appropriate. Add
the following lines to your own .emacs (in your home
directory), or in the /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/default
(if (and (string-match ".*-linux" system-configuration)
(not window-system)
(or (string-match "linux" (getenv "TERM"))
(string-match "con.*" (getenv "TERM"))))
(load-library "t-mouse"))
* If you want to use gpm-root, copy gpm-root.conf to your /usr/etc
directory, test it out and then edit it to suit your feels.
* You'd like to name the gpm info file inside /usr/info/dir. Just insert
the line
* gpm: (gpm.info). A mouse server for the Linux console
at the proper place. Note that this is usually automatically
performed if you install a package prepared for your own
distribution.
* To invoke gpm (and gpm-root) at system boot, add something like this
to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/usr/sbin/gpm -t msc -m /dev/tts/0 &
/usr/bin/gpm-root &
If you are running the new setup of SysVinit, you should better
add a "gpm" script in /etc/rc.d/rc.init and install it in your
runlevels in the usual way (this is usually included in your
distribution as well)
You may want to put the mouse server at a higher priority: in
this case invoke instead "/usr/bin/nice -n -20 /usr/sbin/gpm -t
msc"
The program goes to the background by itself, unless
it is run with debuging enabled (see the -D option in the
documentation).
========== DOCS
The directory "./doc" holds the documentation. The release embeds a
postscript file, slightly reduced to save paper (doc/gpm2.ps), an info
one (doc/gpm.info) and a text-only version (doc/gpmdoc.txt -- but
without table of contents, for now). Man pages are automatically
extracted from the info file, and are installed with "make install"
=========== BUG REPORTS
Before sending bug reports, please look at the file "FAQ",
which outlines some known problems, and how to deal with them.
If your bug isn't fixed by reading there, please report it to me,
without getting angry with me if things don't work at first trial
(but they usually work).
Bug reports are best sent to the gpm mailing list (see above) or to me
via email, if you use personal mail please include the string "gpm"
somewhere in the subject line. This will help my filters in sorting
things out.
* When compilation fails I need your kernel version ("uname -a"), the
compiler version ("gcc -v") and the library version ("ls -l /lib" or,
better "ldd /usr/sbin/gpm"). And the compiler messages, obviously.
* When a program hangs or segfaults, please reinvoke the program under strace:
strace -tf -o /tmp/trace.gpm gpm -t msc
^^^^^^^^^^ put your true cmdline here.
Then send me /tmp/trace.gpm* (they may be one or two files, according
to the strace version), and a description of how you reproduce the problem.
The last resort is a core dump, but I'll ask it personally if I have real
difficulties in tracing out your problem.
=========== CREDITS
The following people contributed to gpm, in chronological order. This
list used to reside in a different file, but it's better for it to stand
out in the README
Andrew Haylett (ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk)
donated "selection" to the linux community, so I could get
the idea and the code. A few others contributed to selection,
but I lost track of their contributions and names.
Steven S. Dick (ssd@nevets.oau.org)
fixed a pair of bugs in early gpm versions.
Miguel de Icaza (miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx)
helped fixing some bugs and provided a good client to test
my server. He helped a lot in testing the various pre-releases.
Olav Woelfelschneider (wosch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
fixed 0.10 with MouseSystems compatible mice.
Janne Kukonlehto (jtklehto@stekt.oulu.fi)
provided xterm mouse decoding to be stolen by me.
Rick Lyons (rick@razorback.brisnet.org.au)
fixed a bug in gpm-0.9.
Reuben Sumner (rasumner@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)
helped fixing behaviour with "-t bm".
Larry Bartholdi (lbartho@scsun.unige.ch)
pinpointed an error in t-mouse-suspend
and provided good suggestions for 0.97.
Mark Lord (mlord@bnr.ca)
ported to Dexxa/Logitech mice and gave feedback several times.
Stefan Giessler (stg@gandalf.han.de)
fixed some problems with gpm-root and
suggested to put gpm in the background (0.97).
Roman Shapiro
helped with the Logitech MouseMan.
Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
Provided a Latin-1 LUT for chars, and enhanced
lut-loading code (0.98).
Adrian Johnson (ajohnson@apanix.apana.org.au)
Gave good feedback and ideas for the 0.98's
Stephen Lee (sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu)
Helped a lot with the damned MouseMan protocol (0.98 and 1.0)
John van Leeuwen (johnvl@einstein.et.tudelft.nl)
Outlined and fixed a pair of bugs in gpm-root 0.98
Alvar Bray (alvar@meiko.co.uk)
Pointed out an error with awk (0.99)
David A. van Leeuwen (david@tm.tno.nl)
Helped with chord-middle protocols (1.0)
Pavel Kankovsky (KAN@frode.dcit.cz)
Open /dev/ttyxx instead of /dev/console in the lib (1.01)
Mark Shadley (shadcat@catcher.com)
Helped in turning to ELF (1.01 and 1.02) and in fixing
horrible bugs of mine. Without his help 1.03 wouldn't be there.
Lou Sortman (lou@lounix4.conc.tdsnet.com)
Added support for glidepoint mice within "-t mman". (1.05)
Marc Meis (100334.1426@compuserve.com)
Provided support for absolute pointing devices, and in
particular for the ncr3125 pen. (1.05)
Michael Plass (Michael_Plass.PARC@xerox.com)
Fixed a damned bug in middle button decoding (M_ms) (1.07)
Markus Gutschke (gutschk@uni-muenster.de)
Provided a better re-encoding for "-R" (1.10)
Karsten Ballueder (Karsten@piobelix.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Suggested the reboot compile-time option (1.10)
John Davis (davis@space.mit.edu)
Found and fixed a buglet in liblow.c for some jed users (1.10)
Julian Thompson (jrt@miel.demon.co.uk)
Fixed a buglet in gpm-root (1.10)
Dave Flater (dave@universe.digex.net)
Removed a typo in the disabled decoder for ms-3b (1.11)
Thomas E. Dickey (dickey@clark.net)
Ported to autoconf (1.11)
Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
New mode "logim" (1.11) and NetMouse (1.14)
Matthias Grimrath (y0001032@rzserv8.rz.tu-bs.de)
Be c++ compliant in gpm.h (1.11)
Stephen Tell (tell@cs.unc.edu)
Patch for the ps2 decoder to support misbehaving devices (1.11)
Francois Chastrette (no-email)
Great help to support plugnpray mice (1.13)
Steve Bennett (s.bennett@lancaster.ac.uk)
Support for the intellimouse serial devices. (1.13)
Jan Daciuk (jandac@pg.gda.pl)
t-mouse: yet another regexp possibility
Ian Zimmerman is now actively cooperating in maintaining gpm, so
he'll no longer appear in the acknowledgements ;-)
David Given (dg@tao.co.uk)
Offered support for joystick mouse emulation (1.14)
Tim Goodwin (tgoodwin@cygnus.co.uk)
Colin Plumb (colin@nyx10.nyx.net)
Ben Pfaff (pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu)
Ian and Iris (brooke@jump.net)
All of them sent in support for ps2 intellimouse (1.14)
Edmund Grimley Evans (edmund@vocalis.com)
Added "-t ms+lr"
Stefan Runker (runkeledv@t-online.de)
Contributed a new Wacom decoder
Alessandro Rubini (rubini@linux.it)
He's done a lot of work on gpm and maintained it.
He's still helping me a lot to understand all parts of gpm.
