Has anyone been able to get gpm to work with ``Special command processing'' a la the -S switch? According to the manpage, it should work by having the line ``append="-S \"command1:command2:command3\""'' in /etc/gpm.conf. But somehow the start-stop-daemon used by /etc/init.d/gpm befuddles the string passed after the -S switch, so gpm sees the string as separate tokens broken by whitespace. That is, if command1 were ``kbd_mode -a'', gpm would see the ``-a'' and take it as its own command line switch, even though there are double quotes around the whole string passed with -S. I have tried various forms of quoting, even multiple-backslashed quotes in case the backslashes are getting absorbed somewhere, but nothing seems to make the string get through as a string. The one way it seems to work is by actually editing /etc/init.d/gpm and changing ``-- $cmdln'' everywhere to ``-- "$cmdln $append"''. (I also comment out the line above that adds $append into $cmdln.)
Then it seems to work, properly, but I think every user shouldn't be expected to edit /etc/init.d/gpm -- that's what /etc/gpm.conf is for. Besides that, gpm doesn't behave as expected even so, but that's probably another problem. Thank, Jesse -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
