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Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X



on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll (mark@chaos.x-philes.com) wrote:
> I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button
> mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right
> button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for
> anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this?

You can remap your mouse buttons.  However, this generally breaks other
useful behavior.  IIRC, the copy (l) and paste (middle) bindings are
defined at low levels in X.

I find that tapping the centerpoint on a two-button mouse generally
chords properly.

Or...get a three-button mouse ;-)

Peace.

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