Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

will trillich wrote:
> 
> 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?

  to see if gpm is running:

  ps aux|grep gpm

  to set it up, don't use gpm config only, read the man page, it says:

...
       -2     Force  two buttons. This means that the middle but-
              ton, if any, will be taken as it was the right one.
...
       Two-button mice use the right button to paste text.
...

  those are command line options try to run gpm by hand (after it's
stopped) to check various settings.

  you can also add:

append="-2"

  to your /etc/gpm.conf (if the line append is already there simply add
space and -2 after the options already specified (watch the quotes)

  (and restart gpm, of course)

	erik