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gpm-0.96 with the new gpm-root utility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Dec 20 07:15:51 1994
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 12:56:55 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: rubini@ipvvis.UNIPV.IT (Alessandro Rubini)
Subject: gpm-0.96 with the new gpm-root utility
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: General Purpose Mouse server, text mode, console, mouse events, menus
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Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Hello Linuxers,
this message is to announce the new release of the
"General Purpose Mouse" server. gpm is a daemon which makes the
work of `selection' with the additional capability of providing
client applications with mouse events. Emacs support is offered
within the package.
====== WHAT'S NEW?
The new release embeds man pages for the three executables "gpm", "mev"
and "gpm-root". "gpm-root", then, is an utility to draw menus on the
background of the Linux console, to perform a variety of tasks. Some
problems with busmice should be fixed with respect to 0.9.
====== Why not 1.0?
There's a slight bug with `The Midnite Commander', which will be fixed
ASAP, with no official announce.
gpm-root lacks sub-mwnus and the capability of reporting the output
of a pileline; moreover, the high-level library for clients is not ready.
Both of them will be fixed in January 95.
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