Bug#470882: /dev/gpmctl freezes acknowledge

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:14:28AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Now, that being said, that reminds me bug #472063: actually libgpm
> shouldn't even have tried to connect to the server, it should have just
> noticed it is running in an X terminal and set gpm_fd to -2...

Both people reporting this bug seem to be using rxvt-unicode, and 
#472063 is also about that.  #472063 is also still open.

So I've tried a few different things.  Using aptitude:
- virtual console shows mouse, but doesn't work as expected.  Clicking
  somewhere doesn't always seem to have an effect.  Click and drag seems
  to have a weird effects.
- xterm: the mouse icon stays the same as a normal xterm, one used for
  selecting text.  Clicking someone does seem to have the desired
  effect.  However, it seems that the place where the cursor is shown
  in other cases it just shows an empty space instead of the '-'.
- rxvt-unicode: The mouse icon is also the text selecting one, and it's
  all that it seems to be doing.  The cursor is not shown.
- gnome-terminal: the mouse icon is a normal pointer.  It also works
  as expected.  When aptitude wasn't started it was the text selection
  icon.
- konsole: behaves the same as gnome-terminal.

For w3m:
- virtual console: no mouse shown, also doesn't seem to have
  any effect at all.
- xterm: same as aptitude, but text under cursor still shown.
- rxvt-unicode: same as aptitude, but the cursor is shown now.
- gnome-terminal: same as aptitude.
- konsole: same as aptitude.

For pdmenu:
- virtual console: no mouse shown, but moving it changes the current
  line of the menu.  It's shown in white on black, no colors.
- xterm, rxvt-unicode, gnome-terminal, konsole: Just selection
  of text.  They all show it in color, rxvt-unicode with a grey
  background, the rest with a blue background.


So it seems to me that the problem might be in the terminal emulator.

I was not able to reproduce any hanging or segfaults or something
simular.


Packages used:
aptitude       0.4.11.8-1
gpm            1.20.4-2
libncurses5    5.6+20080830-1
w3m            0.5.2-2+b1
rxvt-unicode   9.05-1
gnome-terminal 2.22.3-3
xterm          235-1
konsole	       4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5