Changeset cca5d8a

Timestamp:

11/16/2003 09:40:59 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Igor Živković <igor@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, v5_1, v5_1-pre1, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

714b1dc9

Parents:

b3b10a0

Message:

reworded gpm intro

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@1521 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

general/sysutils

Files:

• gpm.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• gpm/gpm-intro.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/sysutils/gpm.xml

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <sect1 id="gpm" xreflabel="GPM-&gpm-version;">
 <title><acronym>GPM</acronym>-&gpm-version;</title>
-
-<para><application><acronym>GPM</acronym></application> (the General Purpose 
-Mouse daemon) is a mouse server for applications running in the console.  It 
-not only provides cut and paste support generally, but its library component is 
-used by various software such as links to provide mouse support to the 
-application generally.  It is useful on desktops, especially if following 
-(Beyond) Linux From Scratch instructions - it's often much easier (and less 
-error prone) to cut and paste between two console windows than to type 
-everything by hand!</para>
 
 &gpm-intro;
@@ -17 +8 @@
 
 </sect1>
-

general/sysutils/gpm/gpm-intro.xml

@@ -2 +2 @@
 <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>GPM</acronym></application></title>
 
-<para>The <application><acronym>GPM</acronym></application> package contains a 
-mouse server for the console and <command>xterm</command>. This is useful for 
-cutting and pasting text in console mode, and also because many console-based 
-programs need it to compile mouse support into themselves.</para>
+<para>The <application><acronym>GPM</acronym></application> (General
+Purpose Mouse daemon) package contains a mouse server for the console
+and <command>xterm</command>. It not only provides cut and paste support
+generally, but its library component is used by various software such as
+<application>Links</application> to provide mouse support to the
+application generally. It is useful on desktops, especially if following 
+(Beyond) Linux From Scratch instructions - it's often much easier (and
+less error prone) to cut and paste between two console windows than to
+type everything by hand!</para>
 
 <sect3><title>Package information</title>