[K12OSN] button-3 copy/paste no longer works in 4.4.1

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Fri Sep 16 14:23:46 UTC 2005


Michael C Wescott wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:53 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
> 
>>It appears Red Hat has, in FC4, moved from the Unix-style "highlighted 
>>text is automatically copied into the buffer, which can be pasted by 
>>clicking button-3 of the mouse (simulated by clicking the left & right 
>>buttons together)" to the Windows-style "highlight text, right-click, 
>>select 'Copy', move cursor to desired destination, right-click, select 
>>'Paste'  method of copying and pasting.  Yuck!  Does anyone know how I 
>>can change this back to the Unix way?
> 
> 
> I don't see this behavior ... what application/desktop/window manager
> are you using?
> 
I get it under Gnome, KDE, and IceWM, running a terminal in each.  Interestingly, I 
don't get this behavior if I come in via vnc.




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