Links - Graphics not enabled when compiling

Eric Gallager egall at gwmail.gwu.edu
Sat Nov 23 05:51:59 PST 2013


I came across some SIMBL hack on Github once that enabled xterm mouse
support in Apple's Terminal.app: https://github.com/brodie/mouseterm
I haven't actually tried it myself though, so I don't know if it does
exactly what you're looking for though...



On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Jeff Friedman <friedmanjeff1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Brandon.  I'll see if I can get it working through
> xterm as a weekend project for myself.
>
> Best wishes to all.
>
> Jeff.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Friedman <friedmanjeff1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to install the Links browser, with the intention of using it
>>> with graphics enabled, but it didn't work.  I have the following Ports
>>> installed - http://pastebin.com/1zn3pYRy
>>>
>>> I also wanted to try and get it working with the mouse but I see that
>>> libgpm isn't available on Macports.
>>>
>>
>> libgpm is only useful with the console on Linux and FreeBSD. You don't
>> get that kind of console on OS X, and libgpm does nothing at all to
>> interface with xterm mouse mode, which is what you want to enable. (However
>> I don't know what terminal emulators on OS X [other than xterm from
>> XQuartz] support it.)
>>
>> In fact, it looks like graphics and mouse will only work if you run it in
>> an X11 terminal emulator such as xterm, and you need to install the +x11
>> variant to get that.
>>
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