[K12OSN] button-3 copy/paste no longer works in 4.4.1
Michael C Wescott
wescott at sc.rr.com
Fri Sep 16 19:20:35 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:07 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:23, Petre Scheie wrote:
> > Michael C Wescott wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:53 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
> > >
> > >>It appears Red Hat has, in FC4, moved from the Unix-style "highlighted
> > >>text is automatically copied into the buffer, which can be pasted by
> > >>clicking button-3 of the mouse (simulated by clicking the left & right
> > >>buttons together)" to the Windows-style "highlight text, right-click,
> > >>select 'Copy', move cursor to desired destination, right-click, select
> > >>'Paste' method of copying and pasting. Yuck! Does anyone know how I
> > >>can change this back to the Unix way?
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't see this behavior ... what application/desktop/window manager
> > > are you using?
> > >
> > I get it under Gnome, KDE, and IceWM, running a terminal in each. Interestingly, I
> > don't get this behavior if I come in via vnc.
>
> The right mouse or menu cut/paste is really a different operation with
> it's own clipboard. The highlight/middle-click snarf/barf mode should
> work most places too. I think what you are really seeing is that you
> don't have middle-click emulation enabled for your 2-button mouse under
> some conditions but I've forgotten what controls that. (How do you get
> along without a roller wheel anyway).
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf or the XFree86 equivalent, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Since Xvnc sets up it's own X server its options might be different.
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