1. General Purpose Mouse Interface This package provides a daemon that listens to the mouse when the console is displayed, and delivers them to applications. The default when no application is running is to emulate "selection", i.e. allow cut-and-paste with the mouse on the console the same way as under X. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

2. Gpm provides mouse support to text-based Linux applications like the Emacs editor and the Midnight Commander file management system. Gpm also provides console cut-and-paste operations using the mouse and includes a program that allows pop-up menus to appear at the click ofa mouse button. From Redhat 8.0 RPM