8. Gpm FAQ - Problems And Questions

8.1 NCurses programs only support cut and paste with my new gpm

You probably mixed a new gpm with an old gpm library. Or You use an old client which searches the socket gpmctl in /var/run instead in /dev. In the later case you have two options: get new clients and recompile them or change gpm.h so that it uses /var/run instead of /dev and recompile gpm and libgpm.