> ] I just bought a new 3 button mouse for the convenience of better cut and > ] paste, and find that I can't seem to make it work.
Fabio Olive leite: > Most likely your mouse is (like mine) a dual mode mouse. Check if it > doesn't have "PC" and "MS" written somewhere around the ball hole. For > sometime this kind of mouse came with a nice switch below it that would > select the mode, but then god-knows-why they changed it Actually, I think there have always been the two approaches. I remember the `hold down the mouse' idiocy from at least the early nineties. The solution is to check the mouse in the shop before buying it. > to an "insanely great" approach: the mouse defaults to micro$oft mode, > which uses only two buttons (don't ask); if you want it to work in > MouseSystems mode, which has three buttons, you have to turn on your PC > holding the left mouse button down. Come to think of it, this isn't nearly as ridiculous in Linux as it is in DOS/Windows. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
