On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:30:50 -0700
Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

> I built these "by the book", but I've lost the ability to use the mouse
> and Button 3 to cut and paste between shell windows!  >8-[  I'm not sure
> who's responsible, much less how to fix it. 


 Paul,

Xorg handles this (and gpm in the console without X).

These articles might be of help:

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-evdev-middle-mouse-button-emulation.html
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107490

and also (although this article is for FreeBSD):

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/middle-click-doesnt-paste-in-terminal.18865/

Does the copy and paste work when you press button one and two together
(emulate third button)?

Make sure (or try) evdev is your mouse driver (try playing with xorg.conf):


Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse0"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option          "Name"  "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse"
EndSection


Get and use the exact string of your mouse name via:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Be sure and restart Xorg to make any config changes take effect.

Watch out for any xmodmap (.xmodmap) / xinput options or other mouse button
mapping settings that could be causing the problem:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/4507/how-do-i-disable-middle-mouse-button-click-paste

BTW, for those using GNOME:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/1252243/middle-click-paste-not-for-long
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ0NjA
https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Selections


  Cheers,

  Mike Shell





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