Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 07:20:42 Mick wrote: > I am not running gpm to test; have you tried the obvious 'Insert', or > Shift+I, or Shift+Insert? I think the difficulty is the need to synchronise the two paste buffers: keyboard and mouse. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text > > (console) mode?

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text > (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried > pressing

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where > you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and > right mouse. > > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > button provided

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text > (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried > pressing both touchpad buttons at once to emulate middle mouse bu

[gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and right mouse. Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text (console)