eix emacs -I [I] app-editors/emacs Available versions: (18) 18.59-r12 (23) 23.4-r18 (24) 24.5-r5 24.5-r7 (25) 25.3-r4 25.3-r6 (26) 26.1-r1 26.1-r3 {X Xaw3d acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gconf gfile gif gpm gsettings gtk gtk2 +gtk3 gzip-el imagemagick +inotify jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars wide-int xft +xpm xwidgets zlib ABI_X86="x32"} Installed versions: 26.1-r3(26)(20:28:31 12/02/2019)(X gpm gzip-el sound toolkit-scroll-bars xft xpm -Xaw3d -acl -alsa -aqua -athena -cairo -dbus -dynamic-loading -games -gconf -gfile -gif -gsettings -gtk -gtk2 -imagemagick -inotify -jpeg -kerberos -lcms -libxml2 -livecd -m17n-lib -mailutils -motif -png -selinux -source -ssl -svg -systemd -threads -tiff -wide-int -xwidgets -zlib) Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Description: The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor [I] app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo Available versions: 1.6-r1 {X games} Installed versions: 1.6-r1(02:04:23 20/06/2018)(X -games) Homepage: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Emacs Description: Common files needed by all GNU Emacs versions [I] app-emacs/emacs-daemon Available versions: 0.22 Installed versions: 0.22(03:34:33 29/01/2019) Homepage: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Emacs Description: Gentoo support for Emacs running as a server in the background [I] app-eselect/eselect-emacs Available versions: 1.18 Installed versions: 1.18(03:38:32 29/01/2019) Homepage: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Emacs Description: Manage multiple Emacs versions on one system [I] virtual/emacs Available versions: 23 24 25 26 Installed versions: 26(20:28:44 12/02/2019) Description: Virtual for GNU Emacs cat /home/user/.emacs ;; Added by Package.el. This must come before configurations of ;; installed packages. Don't delete this line. If you don't want it, ;; just comment it out by adding a semicolon to the start of the line. ;; You may delete these explanatory comments. (package-initialize) (set-background-color "black") (set-face-background 'default "black") (set-face-background 'region "black") (set-face-foreground 'default "white") (set-face-foreground 'region "gray60") (set-foreground-color "white") (set-cursor-color "red") (setq make-backup-files nil) ; stop creating backup~ files (setq auto-save-default nil) ; stop creating #autosave# files (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(gpm-mouse-mode t)) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. ) Manual foreground start in debug mode: emacs -u user -chdir /home/user --fg-daemon=emacs.user --debug-init Loading t-mouse... Loading t-mouse...done Error setting gpm-mouse-mode: (error Gpm-mouse only works in the GNU/Linux console) Starting Emacs daemon. (What I expect from gpm-mouse-mode is to have a clickable bar menu) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile lauching a standalone emacs for the same account and ini file the bar menu is clickable Sorry for this long post, hoping it doesn't sound too silly.
The error message is output in function gpm-mouse-start in term.c: DEFUN ("gpm-mouse-start", Fgpm_mouse_start, Sgpm_mouse_start, 0, 0, 0, doc: /* Open a connection to Gpm. Gpm-mouse can only be activated for one tty at a time. */) (void) { struct frame *f = SELECTED_FRAME (); struct tty_display_info *tty = ((f)->output_method == output_termcap ? (f)->terminal->display_info.tty : NULL); Gpm_Connect connection; if (!tty) error ("Gpm-mouse only works in the GNU/Linux console"); Debugging with gdb shows that when connected with emacsclient, (f)->output_method is output_initial, while with a standalone Emacs it is output_termcap. Not sure if the conditional should be changed (to test for output_termcap or output_initial), or if the value of (f)->output_method is wrong. So it might be best if you report the issue upstream.
I send a bug upstream, mentionning this bug thread url. I'm not sure they read it. Their current proposal is to use: (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions which I did the best I could, but it gave identical result. In the mean time I wondered one thing as here rc-update resturns: emacs.user | default emacs.root | default II can't retrieve where I got this setting from, but could changing default to boot make any difference?
moreover, emacsclient from a xorg terminal .emacs requires: ;; the two lines seems required from a xterminal. (custom-set-variables '(gpm-mouse-mode t) '(xterm-mouse-mode t)) Please note behavior isn't the same as standalone emacs, as it open a help buffer, but at least mouse intercation is there!
Is this still a problem in Emacs 29.2?
Just checked bug remains in 30.0.9999 :(
This has been reported upstream and should be resolved there.
