David Timms wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
With about 7 reboots and looking at the motherboard book I am
certain the mouse and the keyboard are plugged in properly. But when
I press both the left and right mouse buttons I always get not what I
expect but a panel much like the Edit key shows when clicked. It is
not always the same. But never is it what I am used to getting.
I put a lot of print on a terminal window and then select some of
it. Then try to let it appear on another terminal window but all I
get is the darn old panel. I'm now certain it is a system problem but
I have no idea what.
Are you in the gui {gnome?} or vt1..4 ?
If you are talking gnome-terminal:
both click = middle click button3 = paste what is currently
highlighted into the current edit position. {ie the command that is
being entered at the bottom of the terminal}.
Sometimes it rather difficult to get the both click timing correct.
On a wheel mouse {mine} pushing the wheel down {into the mouse} also
does the middle / button 3 click.
You could also ctrl-alt-c to copy and then ctrl-alt-v to paste the text.
DaveT.
Hi Dave, tried your ideas and none worked :-(
The ctrl-Alt-c and v work exactly like the mouse which is a Logitec
track-ball with two switches. I have fooled around with the mouse and
keyboard. It appears the keyboard will work if plugged into EITHER ps2
ports, even though one is labeled mouse and the other keyboard. I just
noticed the mouse has a USB plug which was in a USB-to-ps2 converter
plug. So I took off the converter and plugged the mouse into a USB port
and it works fine.
The ability to copy any words from one thing to another has been a
great improvement over Windows for 10 years.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
