on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:53:46PM -0500, Mark Carroll (mark@chaos.x-philes.com) wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > 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. > > Thanks for confirming this! I feared that this was the case, given the > lack of information I was finding on specifically reconfiguring them - > thanks for saving me wasting any more time looking them up. Don't absolutely take my word for it, but this is my understanding. I poked through the manpages briefly. Not sure I've ever seen this modified (and it would be very disorienting if it was). > > I find that tapping the centerpoint on a two-button mouse generally > > chords properly. > > > > Or...get a three-button mouse ;-) > > Unfortunately, I'm using slightly dodgy buttons that are embedded into > a laptop computer! (-: I can live with emulate3buttons, though - it's > not all that hard to work like that, really. Right. My experiencde has been that it's usually possible to get the timing right and/or rock fingers from one button to another. Usually you want to hit the left mouse button a fraction of a second earlier than the right. I usually get the rhythem right quickly on a new system. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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