From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqLDc-0006zM-OT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:20:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FB6FE06BE; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E21E06BE for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so439892ewy.14 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:20:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=VYHeJtxfsdEw5Yg2nwcjMu5Jn3oWcgrHFkXJqIT9CJg=; b=nAnY501NncRFhGKodTeVMpzD9Lt5DKnlHDWpsJrPqMuXs3wR3vret0M6clQiXp0P62 WjbGjjy6J/pnOcqd4k7dbJ7Ex93S7yvfD/hwp2ENrGcUKzvL2QPgv2ewW6vKy6Lb+5pG 6M/myuuUvhPcTrU5Yd4cjczTQ0KJ0gF0KTfxc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=s344yxG89uXQAXkm7C63bp7Gg0xL1O/hxYjCi5TYMbElnMzO2n8Oy/5xVqv7U0x6wT pr/Jk09VffH6xnyTetuh0GSRCjFwE3xE7ThAKyQlBoL1LiZhPW5OVnw/vUmxRzu9lXX7 InInTQiUT5xLqtZToSn0ox4El6HkQ3ThvXBbU= Received: by 10.211.130.15 with SMTP id h15mr5660352ebn.82.1253686846486; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1685983eyh.17.2009.09.22.23.20.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:20:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q] Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:20:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <87hbuuoe44.fsf@newsguy.com> <20090922232646.GA13591@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090922232646.GA13591@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1765212.EO3zvB1mk9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909230720.44060.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7231d329-cb0f-43af-a0f9-cf5e79ebed04 X-Archives-Hash: 981fd3e9c0cf25cdf8cf7b8f0c65178d --nextPart1765212.EO3zvB1mk9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam=20 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=3D"-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,=20 or Shift+Insert? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1765212.EO3zvB1mk9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkq5vjwACgkQVTDTR3kpaLY2ZQCgmn6/Zc9bL7KCMk+VdhGg0sLV dyYAoMwMuMsAt0hsboNv5/UOOQc99CqI =3H3M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1765212.EO3zvB1mk9--