Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:56:52PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> will trillich <will@serensoft.com> writes:
> > okay, i'm at the console
>
> Middle-click only works on a 3-button mouse in gpm... I don't think it
> does chording. You can tell it whether you have a 2 or 3 button
> mouse... check the docs for details. (I don't have gpm installed
> right now.) If you tell it you have a 2-button mouse, iirc the right
> button will paste.
i did gpmconfig about seven times, with no apparent affect, pro
or con. just to see if i missed something, i tried 'wacom' as the
mouse type, and left click still does left click, right click
still does right click, the pointer/cursor moves about and all
is exactly as it was.
gpmconfig does a /etc/init.d/gpm restart for you automatically,
but i also did it by hand just to be sure. no difference detected
in any mouse behavior.
hell, after /etc/init.d/gpm stop, the pointer/cursor still
follows my mouse movement; left click still selects, right click
still extends the selection. aaugh!
so maybe something aside from gpm is running mouse facilities?
how do i find out? ("lsof ---what?") what other likely
console-mouse suspects are there?
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