Mouse movement - no events?

[Hohl, Gerrit]

Hello everyone,

I don't know if it is a bug or just me having the wrong expectations.

I've written the following small program. I get keyboard key events as
well as resize events. I also get mouse key events (after I installed
the GPM package in my Ubuntu 14). But I don't get any events about mouse
movements.

I've seen that there is a REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION constant / macro. So I
guess there must be a way also to get these events.

What am I doing wrong? Or is my expectation the problem?

Regards
Gerrit


#include <curses.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void quit(void) {
        endwin();
}

int main(void) {
        int x, y, ch;
        MEVENT mev;

        initscr();
        atexit(quit);
        noecho();
        curs_set(0);
        halfdelay(1);
        keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
        mousemask(ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS, NULL);
        // timeout(1000);

        getmaxyx(stdscr, y, x);
        mvprintw(7, 5, "Size: [%3d, %3d]", x, y);
        refresh();

        do {
                ch = getch();
                switch (ch) {
                        case -1:
                                break;
                        case KEY_MOUSE:
                                if (getmouse(&mev) == OK) {
                                        mvprintw(12, 5, "Mouse: x=%3d,
y=%3d, z=%3d, bstate=%010d",
                                                mev.x, mev.y, mev.z,
mev.bstate);
                                } else {
                                        mvprintw(12, 6, "Bad mouse event
---");
                                }
                                refresh();
                                break;
                        case KEY_RESIZE:
                                getmaxyx(stdscr, y, x);
                                mvprintw(7, 5, "Size: [%3d, %3d]", x,
y);
                                refresh();
                                break;
                        default:
                                mvprintw(10, 5, "Last key: %5d", ch);
                                refresh();
                }
        } while (ch != 27);

        return(0);
}