Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 07:20:42 Mick wrote: I am not running gpm to test; have you tried the obvious 'Insert', or Shift+I, or Shift+Insert? I think the difficulty is the need to synchronise the two paste buffers: keyboard and mouse. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]
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? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]
I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and right mouse. 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. So I'm thinking there must be a way from the keyboard to release the copied string someway to `paste' whatever is currently in the copy buffer or clipboard or whatever it is when you hightlight something in the terminal with left mouse drag. If I hook a real mouse to the laptop.. I can do the normal linux stuff all with mouse.. highlight with left mouse button drag (in a terminal) and paste the highlighted string with middle mouse. So again, how can I effect the above with only the keyboard for pasting or alternatively the touchpad? (The touchpad and two button apparatus built into the laptop) I notice on a windows OS what ever is highlighted anywhere with the mouse can be pasted with C-v. Is there a similar keyboard combo in linux (text) terminal mode?
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]
Harry Putnam writes: 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. It should. Do you have 'Option Emulate3Buttons false' in your xorg.conf? Also see Option Emulate3Timeout (man mousedrv). Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and right mouse. 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. First of all: man 8 gpm then edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add a (or modify an existing uncommented): APPEND=-2 And then the right-click should be paste. HTH- James
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]
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
