Copy words still broken-Solved!

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Nataraj wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:05 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>  
>>>     Use the example that is above this starting with open two 
>>> Terminal windows. I was told my problem was a stuck key on my 
>>> keyboard. But 2 keyboards act the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>     Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>     Linux User
>>>     #450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> HI Karl,
>>
>> I would start by running the xev program and put the mouse in the black
>> box and see if you are generating a button 2 press and release by
>> pressing both the left and right button.  Also check the left and right
>> button seperately.
>>
>> When I run xev I get the following by pressing either button 2 or button
>> 1&3 simultaneously:
>>
>> ButtonPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00002,
>>     root 0x6a, subw 0x0, time 1164427903, (95,96), root:(110,198),
>>     state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
>>
>> ButtonRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00002,
>>     root 0x6a, subw 0x0, time 1164428195, (95,96), root:(110,198),
>>     state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES
>>
>>
>> If you are not generating the button2 press, I would look to see if you
>> have the "Emulate3buttons" option for your mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>> My mouse section looks like this:
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>         Driver      "mouse"
>>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>> EndSection
>>
>> I have a 3 button mouse, but I can also generate button 2 using the left
>> and right button simultaneously.
>>
>> If you are still not generating the button 2 press, then I would look to
>> see if somthing is accidently remapped at the x server level, such as
>> with xmodmap or in the xorg.conf (I don't know if this is possible).
>>
>> I believe there is more than one clipboard and I've seen some
>> application at times screw up the behaviour of the clipboard, in
>> particular, I've seen this with vmware and sometimes with emacs.
>> I would try this after restarting your x server with out having run any
>> applications other than the terminal.
>>
>> Nataraj
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> Hi and thank you. I found that the darn thing had "no" for emulate. I 
> fixed that. How it got to be no I have no idea....
>
> Karl
>
>
Boy what a great help! I did the obvious you suggested and rebooted and 
now the copy words is working just as it used to. How it got changed to 
no emulate is a mystery.

Karl


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