Re: Copy/Paste

For that 'red-light wheel mouse', the wheel is the middle button, unless
your system is miss-configured. I am using a MS Trackball Explorer with
the 'red-light wheel' and all I need to do to copy text is to select it
...alt-tab (or whatever I need to do to get to my other
window/program/terminal/virtual desktop) and then push the wheel in (not
scroll it) and the text appears where I had the mouse cursor. Well most
of the time. If I'm pasting into a terminal
(xterm,gnome-terminal,konsole,etc) the text appears at the prompt.

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 03:14, Reilly Burke wrote:
> Edward Muller wrote:
> > Can you tell me how copy/paste is 'still one of the worst annoyances in
> > Linux'?
> > 
> > For me, every time I need to copy/paste in windows ... I end up messing
> > it up since I am so very, very used to select text ... middle click ...
> 
> Does anyone still use serial three-button mouses?  I haven't seen any 
> three-button units for years.  All of ours are those excellent red-light 
> wheel mouses, and ctrl-c/ctrl-v is the easiest copy/paste move.  Windows 
> is way easier to work with in this respect, but we're stuck with Linux. 
>   Therefore this is a case of "annoyed at Linux/envious of Windows", and 
> this forum is about expressing Linux annoyances (even if I'm wrong, I'm 
> still annoyed :-)
> 
> I'd rather Linux changed than us changing to Microsoft.
-- 
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