[PLUG] No Cut-and-Paste With Pointer in Console Mode

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Aaron Burt wrote:

> I'd guess that GPM is confused about how many buttons the trackball
> has.  What happens if you paste using the right, middle or left+right
> buttons?

Aaron,

   It used to mark with the left button and paste with the right button. I've
tried right and both to no avail. In a xterm, shift-left copies to the mouse
buffer and shift-both pastes from it.

> It would be helpful if you said what kind of trackball it is and what
> mouse type GPM is configured for.  (Do a cat /etc/gpm.conf)

   No gpm.conf here. It's a Kensington Orbit two-button trackball and in
/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm it's defined as
   /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2

The regular, ps2 did not work.

Thanks,

Rich

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