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> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 22:02:54 +1200
> 
> I think it is worth installing for this alone but the icing on the cake would
> be to add mouse highlighting and mouse tracking.  Of course, I can't quite get
> that to work, and I've spent far too much time on it now, trying to get my head
> around frame based glyph matrices.
> 
> If there is a display expert who could give me a few hints

Did you look at what msdos.c does to support mouse highlight on an
otherwise text-mode display?  If not, I'd suggest to have a look.