xfce copy & paste

[- Kocil]

Dear All.

The press-middle-whell solution works for me.

I really appreciate the abbundance responses from the community for this 
newbieness.
Thank you very much.

>From: Michael Mosier <mmosier_ml at starlatch.com>
>Quoting Paul Ladouceur <tipaul at look.ca>:
>
> > Hi Kocil...
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks but ...
> > >
> > >>From: Paul Ladouceur <tipaul at look.ca>
> > >>The "standard" way of Xfree: Use the middle (third) button of the
> > >> mouse...  How?  Just hold-left-click the left mouse button and drag
> > >> over text... that  will select text... Then move your pointer over 
>the
> > >> destination (left  button released) and click the middle button... 
>And
> > >> "voilà!"... You have  your text copied... It works on MOST if not 
>every
> > >> application...
> > >
> > > My mouse has only 2 buttons. The third in the middle is a whell.
> > > I heard about 3 buttons emulation but don't know how to turn it on.
> >
> > You have to modify you XF86Config file:
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Mouse0"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"         <--- This is the line you need
> > EndSection
> >
> > Goodluck!
> > Ti-Paul.
>
>
>Since the emails advising "Emulate3Buttons" now seem to outnumber the 
>emails
>advising "click the wheel", I figure I should join in...
>
>Generally the wheel in the middle of the mouse works as a third mouse 
>botton as
>well.  Just click (push down on) the wheel.  If this is the case then you 
>don't
>need the emulate3buttons line at all.
>
>--  Mike
>

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