On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:01:52PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On my netbook, which is currently labouring in a second attempt to > > build libreoffice (and this time I suppose I'll have to try to debug > > the problem if it fails :-( ) I have a two-button mouse. Paste > > fails to work in either Xorg or gpm. For Xorg, I can see that I > > need to add the Emulate3Buttons option, which I will do after the > > libreoffice build stops (hopefully, that will be in a day or two). > > > > But for gpm - is it possible to paste when a middle button is not > > Yes it is. In a non-X environment just press the right button. In X right > button should open a window menu with “paste” in it. Then, of course, > there’s always CTRL-SHIFT-V. > > It just occurred to me. Are you sure you’re copying? With GPM without X, > hold SHIFT while pressing left button. Then right button to paste. Once > again, after you “select” a right click *should* get you a window menu with > “copy” in it. > > Dan
Thanks for the suggestions, but no joy. It seems likely that I was only highlighting, instead of copying, but now that I have xorg running I just tried again in a tty. Also, it's technically a trackpad [ makes a difference in evdev.conf ] and holding shift while manipulating the trackpad and holding down the left button is very hard (I normally use my index fingers for trackpad/buttons) so I'll probably dispense with gpm on this machine. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
