Cut-and-paste in Gnome Terminal
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Jul 12 17:27:14 UTC 2007
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?
>>
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>>
> 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.
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