[Techtalk] copy paste question

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:20:14PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk thought:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:41:14PM +0100 or thereabouts, Pól Ó Dubhthaigh wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Well if you got a 3 button mouse the 3rd button should paste that's standard
> > Unix procedure. You using Gnome or KDE? if your using kde i know u can configure
> > your mouse buttons as to what they do.
> > Been a while since i use RH7.1 am already on RH7.3 ;-)
> 
> There is a utility in RH for sorting your mouse out, if you end up
> with a two-button mouse and "emulate three buttons" not switched on.
> (Which is what's going on here: "emulate three button-mouse" is
> what lets the "press both buttons" thing behave as the third button.)
> 
> I thought it was Xconfigurator. But it might be mouseconfig.
> It's /usr/sbin/mouseconfig so I presume from the path you need
> to be root to run it.

mouseconfig

And for those of us who can *never* remember what the darned command is
called, RH has a utility called "setup" (OK, so it's another command name
to remember but I like to think it's just a _little_ intuituve :-) which
gives you a list of utilities to run.  Run as root, it looks like this...

                                 Choose a Tool            
                                                           
                          Authentication configuration     
                          Keyboard configuration           
                          Mouse configuration              
                          Network configuration            
                          Printer configuration            
                          System services                  
                          Sound card configuration         
                          Timezone configuration           
                          X configuration                  
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                               Run Tool      Quit          
                                                           
Run as an ordinary user, it looks like:

	ERROR - You must be root to run setup.
                                                           
All text based and very handy for those corrupted X displays.  Note,
Xconfiguration works only for XFree86 3.x  If you're on XFree98 4.x I
don't think it will work.                                                           
                                                           
Conor
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