[Bug 461484] Review Request: twin - Textmode window environment for Linux

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--- Comment #15 from Milos Jakubicek <xjakub at fi.muni.cz>  2009-02-24 12:40:50 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> I've tried to use the package (both with and without the libXpm-devel BR) in a

I'll add the BR as soon as there will be new sources with fixing the very last
licensing problem (BSD with ad.)

> F-10 guest and results were... strange:
> - if run from a GUI (direct access from the VM GUI), I can see the message
> "press PAUSE or mouse right button for menu" on the topmost line of the screen.
> The rest of the screen is filled with an ugly backgroun, vaguely similar to a
> text screen (the aspect from the turbo vision GUI from the '90s ) full of stars
> (one star per cell). The only way to interact is to press the right button of
> the mouse, keep it pressed while moving over the desired menu entry and release
> the button only after the mouse is over the desired entry. Not the most
> intuitive interface... I've never seen that before on any system that I've
> worked with, since the era of SFDX 

Yes, me too, and I'm afraid this was intended (but I'll ask upstream to make
sure it is not just misconfiguration or something like that).

> - if run from a text console (ssh from the host text console), the mouse is not
> detected at all (I am offered the choice RETURN to start the app without mouse
> support or CTRL-C to kill it). After starting without mouse support, I failed
> to identify the right keyboard combination to trigger any menu action. The
> screen is once again filled with some blue-ish sort of background

Please make sure that gpm is running (service gpm start) -- ?

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