On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:49:03AM -0500, David Boles wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > David Boles wrote: > > > > Ah! In terminal windows? Not in applications? It, both, work for me (I > > hate those kind of statements ;-) ) > > > > GNOME? KDE? I can look if GNOME. KDE is not my place. > > > > But now we have some place to look. Some *exact* tests/examples that I > > can try to duplicate. > > > > > Use the example that is above this starting with open two Terminal > > windows. I was told my problem was a stuck key on my keyboard. But 2 > > keyboards act the same. > > > I have tried just about everything that I can think of for this and it > worksforme. > > Just to be sure here. By 'terminals' you mean the windows with the > command prompt user@localhost (or something) with the blinking cursor. > Correct? > > When I highlight text in one of them and I move the mouse cursor over > the second one if I press the *middle* (the wheel) mouse button it > pastes into the text second terminal. If I press the right mouse button > I get a 'functions' menu. "Open terminal". "Open tab". Things like that. > > This does not work for you? > > Hmmm... first thing that I would look at would be your xorg.conf where > you edited the mouse properties. > Assuming we-re talking gnome-terminal here there's the profile too, that has the field "Select-by-word characters" which defines what 'words' are made of. -- Chris Green
