On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 11:27 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> I'm sure this has been asked, but I missed it. What the devil happened > >> to the ability to cut-and-paste using the middle mouse button in > >> gnome-terminal? It selects text with the left button ok, but if it > >> pastes at all, it pastes stuff from other applications--NOT what's > >> selected. > >> > >> Worked great in previous Fedoras. What happened? > > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > > 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > > > > > > The above is from the Gnome Terminal and carried over to this email. I > > selected with the left switch and then had to press both switches > > (middle) to write it here in the message. > > > > I think it's working here on F7 and wonder why not on yours. > > > > Karl > > > > I think it has to do with how the X server probes the mouse each time. > When I first installed FC7, it worked but later it didn't. I then added > the mouse configuration to the Xorg.conf file. Now it works as expected. > > It may be dependent on older/newer hardware and trying to make things > more Plug and Play. > > My problems were slightly different so you may want to try it just in case. "That dood it"! Works a treat. Wonder why I didn't think of that? In any case, thanks Robin, Chris and Karl. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
