On Saturday 22 March 2008 08:36:24 am Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, John wrote: > > After many years of relying on the middle mouse button for pasting text, > > I recently upgraded one of my machines to openSUSE 10.3 and the middle > > button no longer works quickly or reliably for any app (not just LyX). I > > now need to click up to 4 times and wait before it works. > > John, > > Over the years I discovered that the middle button (actually, the two > simultaneously for my 2-button trackballs) works as advertised on most > console apps (pine and slrn being exceptions), but not with many GUI apps. > What does work with these is holding the Shift key while pressing the two > rodent or trackball buttons. Don't try to understand, just go with the flow > and use the Shift key when needed. :-) Who am I to spurn such hard won knowledge!
Thanks Rich John O'Gorman > > Rich
