On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button > > mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right > > button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for > > anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this? > > You can remap your mouse buttons. However, this generally breaks other > useful behavior. IIRC, the copy (l) and paste (middle) bindings are > defined at low levels in X.
Thanks for confirming this! I feared that this was the case, given the lack of information I was finding on specifically reconfiguring them - thanks for saving me wasting any more time looking them up. > I find that tapping the centerpoint on a two-button mouse generally > chords properly. > > Or...get a three-button mouse ;-) Unfortunately, I'm using slightly dodgy buttons that are embedded into a laptop computer! (-: I can live with emulate3buttons, though - it's not all that hard to work like that, really. -- Mark
