> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, John Morrison wrote: > >> The mouse is a Microsoft (I know, but I won it!) Wireless Optical Mouse >> 2.0 >> It's the one with the side-ways scrolling functionality which I think is >> what is messing up the paste. xev outputs... >> >> Click the scroll: Is two button 1's > > I guess this is a driver problem. Most likely it is configured to produce > a > double click instead of a middle button press. > > see http://hardware.mcse.ms/message127168.html
Oh joy! I knew it was configured to 'double-click' but, for the life of me couldn't figure out what to change it to! > BTW: I've cc'ed the mailing list so it will end up in the public archives. np :) Thanks ago! J.