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
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