[Techtalk] copy paste question

[Hamster]

> Hi:
> 
> 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 :-(
> 

ok.. I believe this is a function of your mouse. If you have a three button mouse ( this includes a wheel mouse where the wheel is functioning as the third button) then clicking on the wheel or the middle button will enable you to paste your selection.

If you dont like using the third button, then you need to tell your mouse to emulate three buttons, and this causes it to treat the simultaneous clicking of left and right buttons as the third button.

Now in order to setup your mouse to do this, you need to edit your xfree config file.

Now on my redhat 73 system, the file you need to edit is:
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(I'm assuming here youre using Xfree version 4.x)

In that file find the section:
Section "InputDevice"

And add the following line in with the other option lines. (or uncomment it if present):
Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

Restart X, and you should be cooking :)

Hope this helps, 

Hamster