Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, no gui. In Linux, I can left-drag to select text in the console, then right-click to paste it to the command line. My FreeBSD Unleashed book says the mouse can be configured to copy and paste from the console in FreeBSD, but darned if I can figure out how to do it. I've

RE: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread Charles Howse
Hi there, Hi, thanks for the reply. I have a Logitech trackman marble + (two buttons and a third that is also the wheel) and I just left-drag then middle button (the wheel) click. You might have the same thing if you have a wheel on yours if not then you should be able to press both

Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Charles Howse wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, no gui. In Linux, I can left-drag to select text in the console, then right-click to paste it to the command line. My FreeBSD Unleashed book says the mouse can be configured to copy and paste from the console in FreeBSD, but

Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread K Anderson
Charles Howse wrote: Hi there, Hi, thanks for the reply. I have a Logitech trackman marble + (two buttons and a third that is also the wheel) and I just left-drag then middle button (the wheel) click. You might have the same thing if you have a wheel on yours if not then you should be

RE: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread Charles Howse
For the sake of testing, put the mouse directly to the FreeBSD system and reboot (well you might not actually have to reboot but check to see if moused is running and if so kill it and then restart it). That worked fine. The problem must be the KVM, as I suspected. Knowing that, I

Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread K Anderson
Charles Howse wrote: For the sake of testing, put the mouse directly to the FreeBSD system and reboot (well you might not actually have to reboot but check to see if moused is running and if so kill it and then restart it). That worked fine. The problem must be the KVM, as I suspected.

RE: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse

2003-08-15 Thread Charles Howse
Here's a thought. What happens when you switch away then switch back kill moused then restart moused? I'm thinking that maybe a cron job could be created to check mouse states and kill then restart moused. Very interesting... #!/usr/local/bin/bash # Kill and restart moused ps -wax | grep