Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Alessandro Rubini]

On Feb 6th, Petr Baudis:
> [...] However, James Simmons said that he will be working on
> this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.

That would be great. We (gpm list) have been talking about it a few
years ago, but Ian Zimmerman reported a problem with mapping glyphs to
keyboard input: there was no mean (at least back then) to pass the
complete mapping from the kernel to user space.  Sure doing it for the
trivial mapping is trivial, and I think it would be an interesting
experiment.  I was even thinking to have a try some time ago, when I
was the gpm maintainer.

> I would like to ask if there's any movement in this issue. I would
> be even willing to help, if possible :).

Please get on the gpm mailing list (gpm@lists.linux.it) and let's put
together an implementation.

Best
/alessandro

Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Nico Schottelius]

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> > Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about
> > it.
> > But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some
> > information about that, we could include it in gpm. 
> 
> It never really got out since I never got the chance to rework gpm. 

You got it together with me. 

> > Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)
> 
> There are alos patches to get GPM working with the input api in CVS. I
> can post them.

Just send them.

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Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[James Simmons]

> Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about
> it.
> But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some
> information about that, we could include it in gpm. 

It never really got out since I never got the chance to rework gpm. 

> Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)

There are alos patches to get GPM working with the input api in CVS. I
can post them.

Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Nico Schottelius]

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:24:15PM +0100 Petr Baudis put his fingers on the keyboard an wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   About June 2001, in the era of 2.4.7 kernel, there occured a patch on LKML
> (by Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>), which improved the actual
> selection API of kernel to allow applications to get the content of the
> selection buffer etc. However, James Simmons said that he will be working on
> this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.

Possibly I got a mail about that, but as I have a huge backlog, I didn't
read it. 
Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about
it.
But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some
information about that, we could include it in gpm. 

> [..], I would like to ask if there's any movement in this issue.

Not here.

> I would be even willing to help, > if possible :).

Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)

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