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On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam |
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squawked: |
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> > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse |
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> > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text |
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> > (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried |
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> > pressing both touchpad buttons at once to emulate middle mouse but it |
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> > has no effect. |
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> In console the copy-paste is provided by GPM. And I thought GPM paste |
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> is right mouse key, not middle key. And I am also pretty sure that GPM |
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> does not do third button emulation the way X does. |
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> I think a possibility is that you have plugged in and used a mouse |
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> with three buttons. This forced gpm into 3 button mode, so that the |
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> middle button becomes paste and right button is extend selection. Then |
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> you poor two-button touchpad has no more paste. |
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> To prevent that edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add APPEND="-2" to force gpm |
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> to stick with 2-button mode. |
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I am not running gpm to test; have you tried the obvious 'Insert', or Shift+I, |
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or Shift+Insert? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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