On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:35:15PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > > Frank Shute wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > > > >>Good day; > >> > >>Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new > >>FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation > >> > >>I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday > >>but, I was not able to get it > >>going with GENERIC either. > >> > >>#> uname -a > >>#> ******.**********.net 8.1-RELEASE-p1 > >>******,**********.net:/usr/opj/usr/src/sys/BLACKY101410 > >> > >>I have built xclipboard from ports and am using fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 and > >>Eterm ver. 0.9.5. > >>I think I should be able to cut and paste between a brower - Firefox - > >>and Eterm and vice-versa. > >>I haven't been able to glean the appropriate information from the > >>handbook. > >> > >>T.I.A. > >> > > > >How are you cutting and pasting? > > > >1) Highlight text with left mouse, paste with middle mouse > > > >or > > > >2) Highlight text with left mouse, paste with shift-insert > > > >What exactly is not working? > > > >Could be a mouse problem but difficult to tell. > > > > > >Regards, > > > > > Thank You, I'm still working on it but you gave me a heads-up. I think > my trackball is broke.
What's more likely is that X is misconfigured for your trackball. A search for "trackball X configuration" will probably turn up the correct line for you to put in your xconf. If you haven't got a /etc/X11/xorg.conf then the handbook tells you how to create one: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
