Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad
> > of laptop. As it worked years ago.
>
> Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks
> that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups. I
> haven't seen that in practice in quite some time. I think people
> mostly stopped implementing it, because two-button mice (without
> scroll wheels) fell out of the market.
>
> > Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why?
>
> I forgot about laptops with touchpads. Unfortunately, this is not
> an area that I've had to research, so I don't know what the current X
> and Wayland implementations do to emulate three-button mice. Maybe
> someone else knows, or maybe you can find some modern-day
> documentation about it on the Internet.
Dear Greg,
on my TUXEDO Laptop the touchpad is configurable.
e.g. middle mouse button == tap with two fingers
or like I opted for 'tap harder onto the lower right corner' of the
touchpad.
just my 2 cents
and thanks because I learned a lot from your posts!
Kind regards
Eike
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