All right, I know I can't complain because I don't pay Mandrake; but I would have thought that known bugs might have been ironed out for a new distribution regardless.
Just for the records: in mandrake 9.1 use of gpm (mouse control) in text consoles as ordinary user (but not as root) is buggy: does not work with midnight commander. If the ordinary user is the first to log in you get the same old debug messages spewing out on screen, if someone else has logged in on a different text console before you don't get debug messages but it just doesn't work. Root user can use gpm with mc ok. My guess is it has to do with devfs. Seems I'm one of the very few to prefer using text consoles and mc when fooling about with files insted of the glamorous graphical interface - which I love for other things. I have tried setting an alias mc = mc -d so as to invoke mc without mouse support, but this gives me an error every time I open a console in graphical environment and invoke mc. The solution would be a script: check if you are in text console or graphical console; if in text console call mc as mc -d how would I do the first check with bash ? -- Michele Alzetta
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