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> > I plan to make selection go away in 2.5.X. It should be done in userland.
> > When I get time I will rework gpm.
> 
> Hmmm... ok, it changes all the thing. So I doubt the patch will be accepted. In
> fact I started looking gpm sources when I wanted to do it ;-)
> I would like to know when you start with it and I could contribute some
> ideas/code.

Look at http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxconsole

We have patches for gpm in CVS. It needs alot of work.