Re: Clipboard?!

[John Pearson <huiac@camtech.net.au>]

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.
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