On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 23:50 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> As said above: when it receives a mouse click, it uses ioctl(TIOCLINUX)
> to make the kernel paste. But it doesn't even know what is being pasted.
Ah,... I now I see... so one would need to implement in the kernel, that
every user has it's own clipboard space... and only then gpm could do
something like:
onclick()
{
if(userFits())
ioctl(...)
else
;//do nothing
}> > A "solution" might be to add a configuration option, that allows > > cross-user copy/pasting... but that should then be disabled per default, > > IMHO. > I wonder who will ever notice and enable it. Well I guess people who desperately miss that "feature" would probably have a look at the documentation. And especially we in Debian have debconf that could simply ask. :) > These don't matter here: unless they are the same as some of the users > logged into the keyboard console, they don't have any access to the > keyboard console, and thus not to the copy/paste buffer either. I doubt... we at the super computing centre have many nodes where we use some sort of serial console access (differently implemented depending on different hosts),... where I can log in from remote places (via ssh or browser) and get a console on which I can use gpm. And it's the same if you remotely log in on the consoles of VMs. Cheers, Chris.
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