No console mouse support in Midnight Commander

[Silent-Hunter]

  On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>>    On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Hiisi wrote:
>>> 2010/10/8 Silent-Hunter<cheery314 at hotmail.com>:
>>>>    Unless I use sudo. It's weird, it only works if I use sudo. Otherwise,
>>>> no mouse in MC. Is it a permissions thing? If so, how do I fix it?
>>> I have no such problem:
>>> mc-4.7.4-1.fc12.i686
>>> gpm-1.20.6-9.fc12.i686
>>> Have you installed mc and gpm by yum?
>> Yes. I have installed both of them. The mouse works for copy/paste, but
>> not for clicking on items to select them, which it does if I use sudo.
> I have not had any luck getting console mouse support to work with Fedora for
> quite a few releases now.  BUT, the muse struck me, and I gave it another
> chance...
>
> I did the following:
> 1. "yum install gpm"
> 2. "/etc/init.d/gmp start"
> 3. Pressed "Ctrl | Alt | F2"
> 4. "su" into root.
> 5. Started "mc"
> 6. Result?  For the first time in years, I have console mouse support in Fedora
> :)  I can do everything with the mouse in "mc" in Console mode that I can do
> with the mouse when I am in graphical mode.
>
> But, you might already have tried all of this...
>
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
I have. I want to be able to do it without having to be root.