GPM ("General Purpose Mouse") software provides support for
mouse
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devices in
Linux
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virtual consoles. It is included in most
Linux distribution
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s.
ncurses
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" ...
supports GPM; many applications use ncurses mouse-support.
Other applications that work with GPM include
Midnight Commander
GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Nor ...
,
Emacs
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, and
JED
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Places
* Jed River, New Zealand
* Jed Water, a river in Scotland
* Jed, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
People and fictional characters
* Jed (given name), a list of people and fictional charact ...
.
See also
*
moused
moused is a mouse daemon on FreeBSD systems that works with the console driver to support mouse operations in the text console and user programs. It first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2 and is currently located in /usr/sbin/moused.
Function
The mouse ...
, a mouse-driver for
FreeBSD
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Sources
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Free system software
Free software programmed in C
Linux software
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