Setting up X to uses gpm setup? - SOLVED
Csányi Pál
csanyipal at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 00:03:03 PDT 2012
csanyipal at gmail.com (Csányi Pál) writes:
> I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and used Unity.
>
> After a while I changed Desktop environment to Window Maker (my favorite
> environment) and I must to setup manually keyboard layouts on console
> (no graphical environment) and X Window.
> I must purge unity and related packages so I now get X by running
> startx. It's good for me.
> But I haven't success so far in the mice setup.
> On console I'm using the 'gpm' and it works fine.
> On Debian system this setup just works so I get the left hended mice in
> X environment too, but on Ubuntu this isn't the case.
> So I don't understand which setup has my mice in X?
> Why can't I get in X environment the gpm setup of my mice?
The question is wrong because no one can setup X to uses the gpm
configuration.
I forgot that that on Debian I setup my mice to be lefthanded with the
following line in ~/.xinit file:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5"
and after that line is the line
wmaker
that starts Window Maker window manager.
--
Regards from Pal
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