How to activate mouse in the server terminal

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Many times if I need to go to the terminal it would be very useful to be able to use mouse. I know it used to be possible by running ‘gpm’ service, but I don’t think it exists in F36 any more.
Any suggestions?

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It is available. Just run dnf install gpm if it is not already installed. and then run systemctl enable gpm if it is not automatically enabled.

[root@newbox ~]# dnf list gpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:58 ago on Mon 05 Sep 2022 14:56:18 CEST.
Installed Packages
gpm.x86_64                       1.20.7-40.fc36                        @fedora
[root@newbox ~]#
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And sudo systemctl start gpm if you want to start without reboot.

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Thanks @vekruse ,
I don’t have it installed. I assumed Fedora replaced it with some other program.