Rich Shepard wrote circa 10-10-29 02:50 PM: > Does anyone know the library or tool that controls cutting and pasting > using the mouse when the X Window System is running? I suspect that it's not > xclipboard because that is a text-based terminal application that can be > used to cut and paste, but I'm interested in what is used when the left > mouse button is used to highlight text and the middle button used to paste > it in another vt or application window. > > The past couple of weeks I've had this fail sporatically. A couple of days > not at all, some days once, or twice, and a couple of days multiple times. > Killing the X server and restarting it restores the capability but it can > again silently disappear.
I think Xlib is the library. And I use xmodmap to modify which mouse buttons do what. Perhaps that's enough of a clue? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
