Re: [LINUX5250] GPM integration

[Alex Mauer <amauer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement wrote:

> Mouse support in curses is available (see:  man curs_mouse)  but it's a
> bit ugly when running inside of an xterm, because the xterm processes the
> mouse events, but apparently has some way of communicating them to the
> application that's under it, as well.
>
> I haven't had a chance to do complete research on this since I was (at
> that time) looking at copy/paste capabilities in xt5250, and decided that
> there'd be no way to determine if input was coming from the keyboard or
> the clipboard, so I figured it was a waste of time.
>
> With a lot of the features we're having requests for, it seems to make
> more sense to concentrate on gtk5250 rather than xt5250.   The enhanced
> 5250 support is one obvious place (how do we do a scrollbar in text?)
> the keyboard mapping is another big one, copy & paste is another, and
> then of course there's this question about positioning the cursor via
> mouse clicks...
>
> If gtk5250 had all of xt5250's features, and was included in the main
> distro, I think it'd be the TN5250e terminal of choice for Unix users.
> What do you think?
>
>  
For me, at least currently (and the forseeable future), the console 
tn5250 is more important...thus X cut-n-paste is not so important as 
cursor positioning.
Having a better keymapping method than the linux console keymap would be 
excellent!

The only GUI feature that I think would be nice would be scaled-font 
resizing...since the terminal is always 80x24 or 132x27.

Is enhanced tn5250 available on the "real" text-mode terminals?  If so, 
perhaps they should be the basis?  I'm guessing it's not though...

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