On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text > (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried > pressing both touchpad buttons at once to emulate middle mouse but it > has no effect.
In console the copy-paste is provided by GPM. And I thought GPM paste is right mouse key, not middle key. And I am also pretty sure that GPM does not do third button emulation the way X does. I think a possibility is that you have plugged in and used a mouse with three buttons. This forced gpm into 3 button mode, so that the middle button becomes paste and right button is extend selection. Then you poor two-button touchpad has no more paste. To prevent that edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add APPEND="-2" to force gpm to stick with 2-button mode. HTH W -- "Do you all understand? At this point I'll settle for quiet acquiescence." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1019 days, 22:12
