diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e3bd6dd6c..1bc85a416 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ cmake_dependent_option(
   "${BUILD_TESTING}" OFF
 )
 option(USE_DOXYGEN "Build HTML cross reference with doxygen" OFF)
+option(USE_GPM "Enable libgpm console mouse support" OFF)
 option(USE_PANDOC "Build man pages and HTML reference with pandoc" ON)
 option(USE_POC "Build small, uninstalled proof-of-concept binaries" ON)
 option(USE_QRCODEGEN "Enable libqrcodegen QR code support" OFF)
@@ -145,6 +146,16 @@ endif()
 find_library(unistring unistring REQUIRED)
 set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND libunistring)
 set_package_properties(libunistring PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED)
+if(${USE_GPM}) # no pkgconfig from gpm
+unset(HAVE_GPM_H CACHE)
+check_include_file("gpm.h" HAVE_GPM_H)
+if(NOT "${HAVE_GPM_H}")
+  message(FATAL_ERROR "Couldn't find gpm.h from libgpm")
+endif()
+find_library(gpm gpm REQUIRED)
+set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND libgpm)
+set_package_properties(libgpm PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED)
+endif()
 unset(HAVE_QRCODEGEN_H CACHE)
 if("${USE_QRCODEGEN}")
 check_include_file("qrcodegen/qrcodegen.h" HAVE_QRCODEGEN_H)
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 8807bb48b..15dcb50e9 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ prepackaged on many distributions. Otherwise, acquire the current source via
 
 Install build dependencies:
 
-`apt-get install build-essential cmake doctest-dev zlib1g-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libncurses-dev libreadline-dev libqrcodegen-dev libswscale-dev libunistring-dev pandoc pkg-config`
+`apt-get install build-essential cmake doctest-dev zlib1g-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libgpm-dev libncurses-dev libreadline-dev libqrcodegen-dev libswscale-dev libunistring-dev pandoc pkg-config`
 
 If you only intend to build core Notcurses (without multimedia support), you
 can omit `libavformat-dev`, `libavutil-dev`, and `libswscale-dev` from this
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ If you want to build the Rust wrappers, you'll also need:
 
 Install build dependencies:
 
-`dnf install cmake doctest-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel libqrcodegen-devel libunistring-devel OpenImageIO-devel pandoc`
+`dnf install cmake doctest-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel gpm-devel readline-devel libqrcodegen-devel libunistring-devel OpenImageIO-devel pandoc`
 
 If you only intend to build core Notcurses (without multimedia support), you
 can omit `OpenImageIO-devel`. If you're building outside Fedora Core (e.g. with
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ but must be `Debug` for use of `USE_COVERAGE`.
 * `USE_COVERAGE`: build coverage support (for developers, requires use of Clang)
 * `USE_DOCTEST`: build `notcurses-tester` with Doctest, requires `BUILD_TESTING`
 * `USE_DOXYGEN`: build interlinked HTML documentation with Doxygen
+* `USE_GPM`: build GPM console mouse support via libgpm
 * `USE_MULTIMEDIA`: `ffmpeg` for FFmpeg, `oiio` for OpenImageIO, `none` for none
 * `USE_PANDOC`: build man pages with pandoc
 * `USE_POC`: build small, uninstalled proof-of-concept binaries
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c9d91fe2d..558873c3a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ may well be possible to use still older versions. Let me know of any successes!
 * (OPTIONAL) (OpenImageIO, testing, C++ bindings): A C++17 compiler
 * (build+runtime) From [NCURSES](https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html): terminfo 6.1+
 * (build+runtime) GNU [libunistring](https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/) 0.9.10+
+* (OPTIONAL) (build+runtime) [libgpm](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/) 1.20+
 * (OPTIONAL) (build+runtime) GNU [Readline](https://www.gnu.org/software/readline/) 8.0+
 * (OPTIONAL) (build+runtime) From QR-Code-generator: [libqrcodegen](https://github.com/nayuki/QR-Code-generator) 1.5.0+
 * (OPTIONAL) (build+runtime) From [FFmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/): libswscale 5.0+, libavformat 57.0+, libavutil 56.0+