[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:

> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam
>> squawked:
>>> > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse
>>> > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text
>>> > (console) mode?  Or using the touch pad thing somehow.  I've tried
>>> > pressing both touchpad buttons at once to emulate middle mouse but it
>>> > has no effect.
>>>
>>> In console the copy-paste is provided by GPM. And I thought GPM paste
>>> is right mouse key, not middle key. And I am also pretty sure that GPM
>>> does not do third button emulation the way X does.
>>>
>>> I think a possibility is that you have plugged in and used a mouse
>>> with three buttons. This forced gpm into 3 button mode, so that the
>>> middle button becomes paste and right button is extend selection. Then
>>> you poor two-button touchpad has no more paste.
>>>
>>> To prevent that edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add APPEND="-2" to force gpm
>>> to stick with 2-button mode.
>>
>> I am not running gpm to test; have you tried the obvious 'Insert', or Shift+I,
>> or Shift+Insert?
>
> None of those do what I'm after here.
> Someone answered that screen can do the kind of thing I talked about
> ... and yet it can.
           ^yes