Re: GPM in emacs does not work?

[A. Soare]

I need the gpm to work for one patch that I send next week.

Please, can somebody solve this bug of GPM?



> 
> A. Soare writes:
>  > Emacs does not receive GPM events, even if it is compiled with -lpgm 
> (HAVE_GPM = 1), and (gpm-mouse-start) does not return error.
> 
> It seems to be due to this change:
> 
> 1.974        (monnier  12-Sep-08):       if (gpm < 0)
> 1.974        (monnier  12-Sep-08):    /* Presumably the GPM daemon has closed 
> the connection.  */
> 1.974        (monnier  12-Sep-08):    close_gpm ();
> 
> in tty_read_avail_input of keyboard.c.  I don't understand it because the GPM
> manual says about Gpm_GetEvent:
> 
>   It returns 1 on success, -1 on failure, and 0 after closing the connection.
> 
> The ChangeLog entry says:
> 
>       * keyboard.c (tty_read_avail_input): Forcefully close the gpm
>       connection if Gpm_GetEvent fails.
> 
> Perhaps Stefan can shed some light.
> 
> -- 
> Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
> 
> 

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