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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:00:35 -0500
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Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
None of those do what I'm after here.
Someone answered that screen can do the kind of thing I talked about
... and yet it can.