[plug] Loss of X mouse control

Gavin Tweedie tweedie at nw.com.au
Wed Sep 23 20:00:13 WST 1998


> inept newbie. However the problem with the above "correct solution" is
> that now startx can only properly be run by root (since gpm can only
> be killed etc. by the superuser) ... this is not too much of a problem
> since I'm the only user on my machine, but it is still an annoying
> restriction ... is there any way around it?

Run gpm as a user or 'nobody' - you could use `su nobody -c gpm` or
something to start it thus allowing anyone to kill it (i think!)

Gavin



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