At least in X You can setup in XF86Config the emulation of the middle button (both button pressed) I dont know about tty.
Matth On Mon, 08 May 2000, David Henningsson wrote: > Well, I read somewhere about that there was a clipboard in Linux. And it was > supposed to work as this: You mark a text and it will immediately be in the > clipboard. Then click the middle button and it is pasted. > > I have no middle button. So there is some kind of emulation of that in linux, > right? I just don't haven't figured how to do it. It doesn't seem to be both > at the same time, and not first-one-and-then-the-other either. In XF86Config > there is something about this, some timeout value...? > > Does this clipboard stuff work both in X and tty/console mode? In tty mode, > there is no kind of mouse arrow. > > I'm using debian 2.1r4 slink + kernel 2.2.14.

