[Techtalk] copy paste question

[Mary]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:27:20AM -0400, Mary E. Mulderrig wrote:
> Excuse the question if it seems trivial. Well here goes; I used to be
> able to select text in any app using my left mouse botton and then
> paste it into any other app/ term window by pressing both left and
> right buttons at the same time. I recently started using Red Hat 7.1
> and I can no longer perform this time saving trick :-(

Which distro/version were you using before?

A trivial suggestion, hopefully others will have better:

Do you have a middle mouse button? If so, you can probalby paste with
that...

-Mary.