No console mouse support in Midnight Commander

[john wendel]

On 10/09/2010 05:07 AM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>>
>>    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.
>
> Thank you for that clarification.  I just tried Midnight Commander in Console
> mode.  This time, I did NOT log in as root.  I just logged in as myself, a
> regular, non-priviledged user.  I discovered that mouse support works the same
> for me in Console mode whether I am root or not.  Translation: at least on my
> system, for some reason Console mouse support works perfectly in Midnight
> Commander when I am logged in as a regular user.

What are the file permissions on /dev/input/mouse(n) and mice? Maybe 
there's a clue here.

Regards,

John