[buug] Learning to cut and paste
Ian Zimmerman
itz at speakeasy.org
Wed Sep 18 16:51:05 PDT 2002
Bill> My gpm seems to not be cutting and pasting :-< I think that
Bill> during installation I picked "3 button mouse" when in reality I
Bill> should have selected "two button with 3 button emulation".
Bill> I can highlight text, but it doesn't reach the buffer when I
Bill> click two buttons simultaneously.
Any reason not to actually get a 3-button mouse? The emulation really
stinks, you'll give yourself a carpal syndrome quite fast.
And a lot of programs use 3 buttons in an essential way under X. I
don't know if that matters to you, of course.
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Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
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