Starting emacs daemon in console as: emacs -u user -chdir /home/user --fg-daemon=emacs.user --debug-init outputs: Loading t-mouse... Loading t-mouse...done Error setting gpm-mouse-mode: (error Gpm-mouse only works in the GNU/Linux console) Starting Emacs daemon. Consequently mouse won't be usable when connecting to daemon, whereas standalone emacs launched in console has mouse enabled. Context: cat /home/user/.emacs ;; Added by Package.el.  This must come before configurations of ;; installed packages.  Don't delete this line.  If you don't want it, ;; just comment it out by adding a semicolon to the start of the line. ;; You may delete these explanatory comments. (package-initialize)  (set-background-color "black")  (set-face-background 'default "black")  (set-face-background 'region "black")  (set-face-foreground 'default "white")  (set-face-foreground 'region "gray60")  (set-foreground-color "white")  (set-cursor-color "red") (setq make-backup-files nil) ; stop creating backup~ files (setq auto-save-default nil) ; stop creating #autosave# files (custom-set-variables  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.  '(gpm-mouse-mode t)) (custom-set-faces  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.  ) NB: bug reported at https://bugs.gentoo.org/677826 Thks In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)  of 2019-02-12 built on asuslpm Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12003000 System Description:    Gentoo Base System release 2.6 Recent messages: Loading t-mouse...done Loading xt-mouse...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Configured using:  'configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu  --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man  --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc  --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-silent-rules  --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-26.1-r3  --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-26.1-r3/html --libdir=/usr/lib64  --program-suffix=-emacs-26 --infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-26  --localstatedir=/var  --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp  --without-compress-install --without-hesiod --without-pop  --with-file-notification=no --disable-acl --without-dbus  --without-modules --without-gameuser --with-gpm --without-kerberos  --without-kerberos5 --without-lcms2 --without-xml2 --without-mailutils  --without-selinux --without-gnutls --without-libsystemd  --without-threads --without-wide-int --without-zlib --with-sound=oss  --with-x --without-ns --without-gconf --without-gsettings  --with-toolkit-scroll-bars --without-gif --without-jpeg --without-png  --without-rsvg --without-tiff --with-xpm --without-imagemagick  --with-xft --without-cairo --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt  --with-x-toolkit=no 'CFLAGS=-march=native -mtune=skylake -O2 -pipe'  CPPFLAGS= 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-fuse-ld=bfd -Wl,--enable-new-dtags  -march=native -mtune=skylake -O2 -pipe'' Configured features: XPM SOUND GPM FREETYPE XFT OLDXMENU X11 Important settings:   value of $LANG: fr_FR.utf8   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect:   xterm-mouse-mode: t   gpm-mouse-mode: t   tooltip-mode: t   global-eldoc-mode: t   electric-indent-mode: t   mouse-wheel-mode: t   tool-bar-mode: t   menu-bar-mode: t   file-name-shadow-mode: t   global-font-lock-mode: t   blink-cursor-mode: t   auto-composition-mode: t   auto-encryption-mode: t   auto-compression-mode: t   buffer-read-only: t   line-number-mode: t   transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. 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