Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: >> 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. > > I am not running gpm to test; have you tried the obvious 'Insert', or > Shift+I, > or Shift+Insert?
None of those do what I'm after here. Someone answered that screen can do the kind of thing I talked about ... and yet it can.
