Cut-and-paste in Gnome Terminal
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Thu Jul 12 18:43:14 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 11:27 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> >> I'm sure this has been asked, but I missed it. What the devil happened
> >> to the ability to cut-and-paste using the middle mouse button in
> >> gnome-terminal? It selects text with the left button ok, but if it
> >> pastes at all, it pastes stuff from other applications--NOT what's
> >> selected.
> >>
> >> Worked great in previous Fedoras. What happened?
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
> > 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
> >
> >
> > The above is from the Gnome Terminal and carried over to this email. I
> > selected with the left switch and then had to press both switches
> > (middle) to write it here in the message.
> >
> > I think it's working here on F7 and wonder why not on yours.
> >
> > Karl
> >
>
> I think it has to do with how the X server probes the mouse each time.
> When I first installed FC7, it worked but later it didn't. I then added
> the mouse configuration to the Xorg.conf file. Now it works as expected.
>
> It may be dependent on older/newer hardware and trying to make things
> more Plug and Play.
>
> My problems were slightly different so you may want to try it just in case.
"That dood it"! Works a treat. Wonder why I didn't think of that?
In any case, thanks Robin, Chris and Karl.
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