If we want to make the GPM code into a module, we'd have to move the following code out of frame-tty.c, and into gpmevent.c #ifdef HAVE_GPM CONSOLE_HAS_METHOD (tty, get_mouse_position); CONSOLE_HAS_METHOD (tty, set_mouse_position); #endif Also, I don't see a clean way to do this from device-tty.c: This is from tty_asynch_device_change(): #ifdef HAVE_GPM /* We need to tell GPM how big our screen is now ** I am pretty sure the GPM library will get incredibly confused ** if you try to connect to more than one mouse-capable device, ** so I don't think it will cause any more damage in that case. */ gpm_mx = width; gpm_my = height; #endif -bp