[PLUG] gpm Marks But Does Not Paste

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Aug 30 03:49:26 UTC 2006


   Folks here were so helpful this morning with Bill's nVidia mouse issues in
X that I'm hoping you can help me solve a problem with the mouse on
consoles.

   gmp is running, and when I move the trackball the cursor rectangle moves
across the screen as directed. When I hold down the left button and drag, I
can highlight text. But, I cannot then use the 'middle' button (both of
them) or the right button to paste the blocked text. This used to work just
fine; it stopped some months ago and I don't recall just when. It _may_ have
been when the old trackball finally wore out and was replace by the Logitech
orbit.

   I've read the man page and found nothing of value there. The last time I
searched with Google I didn't find anything pertinent.

   The gpm daemon is started with '/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2'.
/dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/psaux. Neither of these has been changed
in years. I'd really like to fix the problem and your help will be
appreciated.

Rich

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