On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:40:59PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote > Well, I read somewhere about that there was a clipboard in Linux. And it > was supposed to work as this: You mark a text and it will immediately be > in the clipboard. Then click the middle button and it is pasted. > > I have no middle button. So there is some kind of emulation of that in > linux, right? I just don't haven't figured how to do it. It doesn't seem > to be both at the same time, and not first-one-and-then-the-other either. > In XF86Config there is something about this, some timeout value...? > > Does this clipboard stuff work both in X and tty/console mode? In tty > mode, there is no kind of mouse arrow. >
Console-mode mouse operation is provided by the gpm package; gpm copies text with the left button and pastes it with the right button of 2-button mice, or the centre button of three-button mice. Mouse behaviour under X is controlled by /etc/X11/XF86Config; add the option Emulate3Buttons to the "pointer" section to allow you to emulate the middle button by clicking simultaneously with the left and right button. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
