Re: [DNG] Linux's sucky cut and paste: was: problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread Pontus Goffe via Dng
On 2020-11-18 08:23, d...@d404.nl wrote: In my XFCE environment I use Ctrl+Ins to copy and Shift+Ins to paste most of the time instead of Ctrl+C and Ctlr+V. Grtz Nick I use that a lot too and I am on LXDE. Whats funny is that this is something I brought with me from really old Windows but

Re: [DNG] Linux's sucky cut and paste: was: problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 18-11-2020 01:07, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:16:11 -0500 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >> A wild guess. Linux has over the ages acquired (at least) two cut >> and paste mechanisms -- one from the underlying X system, and another >> from the desktop systems put on top. They don't a

Re: [DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread terryc
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:50:15 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:54:45PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I infer from those kind enough to answer that my problem getting > > the mouse to paste what it scanned is not unusual. When the problem > > shows up again I'll try to paste

Re: [DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread karl
Hendrik: ... > Also, I think there's > some kind of mouse configuration that is required for this to work. ... $ man mousedrv | grep -A6 Emulate3Buttons Option "Emulate3Buttons" "boolean" Enable/disable the emulation of the third (middle) mouse button for mice

[DNG] Linux's sucky cut and paste: was: problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:16:11 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > A wild guess. Linux has over the ages acquired (at least) two cut > and paste mechanisms -- one from the underlying X system, and another > from the desktop systems put on top. They don't always agree as to > what has to be cut and paste

Re: [DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:54:45PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I infer from those kind enough to answer that my problem getting the > mouse to paste what it scanned is not unusual. When the problem shows > up again I'll try to paste with both mouse buttons rather than the > button. I've always

Re: [DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread Haines Brown
I infer from those kind enough to answer that my problem getting the mouse to paste what it scanned is not unusual. When the problem shows up again I'll try to paste with both mouse buttons rather than the button. My wireless mouse did not work at all, but now for some reason it does. I can p

Re: [DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread golinux
On 2020-11-17 07:16, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:07:31AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button. I find that sometimes the mouse remembers scanned text bu

Re: [DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:07:31AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems > having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button. > > I find that sometimes the mouse remembers scanned text but then is > unable to paste it. T

[DNG] problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread Haines Brown
About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button. I find that sometimes the mouse remembers scanned text but then is unable to paste it. The problem comes and goes with my wired mouse but is always present wit