Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions

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Article from Issue 189/2016
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Klaus talks about the gpm mouse driver for ncurses, auto-login without a password, using Live discs, and associating MIME types.

Gpm and Auto-Login

Dear Klaus:

It seems like it should be possible using gpm or perhaps mev to have a mouse click either send a startx or Kodi command to the shell. For example, the man [page for the] gpm command indicates that something like

gpm -S "kodi:startx:sudo shutdown -h now"

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