Re: Clipboard?!

[matthschulz <matthschulz@gmx.net>]

At least in X You can setup in XF86Config the emulation of the
middle button (both button pressed)
I dont know about tty.

Matth

On Mon, 08 May 2000, 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. 
> 
> I'm using debian 2.1r4 slink + kernel 2.2.14.