Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 12:23:34 AM, Andreas Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what i actually wanted to ask is: can i assign keys somewhere in bb > to simulate that "middle-mouse-button-click", e.g. some setting in > bbkeys? > I have only recently switched from Win to Linux and am quite used to > Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V...
Many applications know about Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V too. As for emulating what the mouse copy&paste with the keys: first of all, you don't need Ctrl+C anymore. Once you select something (which you'd have to do anyway before Ctrl+C) it's already copied. I've seen mIRC do this on Windows, for example, and it saves a little time. But the pasting needs two things: pressing the middle mouse button AND positioning the mouse pointer at the right spot. Try this with a bigger text area and you'll notice that text doesn't get pasted at the text cursor position, it goes at the mouse pointer position. So this would be dificult to reproduce with the keys. bbkeys does not handle mouse events. There are programs that do. I use xbut, which you must load into .xinitrc just like you do with bbkeys, and use ~/.xbutrc to specify which keys to bind to what mouse events (this includes buttons press AND pointer movement). If you use separate keys for xbut and bbkeys they can both do their jobs. Haven't tested common bindings myself, to see what happens. Oh, and xbut's home page seems to have gone down. Google's cache remembers a page telling about xbut 0.4.3, I have 0.4 and have only found 0.3 with a quick search. A longer search with several FTP search engines might get you a better version, or maybe someone can send it to you. If you want 0.4 I'll deliver. Ciprian Popovici -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
