From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 1 21:11:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23867 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.impulse.net (mail.impulse.net [204.188.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA23862 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:11:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 13105 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 1998 04:11:16 -0000 Received: from sb1-79.impulse.net (HELO chub.local) (204.188.6.79) by mail.impulse.net with SMTP; 2 Oct 1998 04:11:16 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by chub.local (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA00693; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:08:01 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse behavior References: <19981002124913.D26384@freebie.lemis.com> From: Harry Putnam Date: 01 Oct 1998 21:08:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:49:13 +0930" Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.43/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > On Thursday, 1 October 1998 at 20:07:53 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > > After installing FreeBSD-2.2.7, I haven't been able to figure out how > > the mouse is supposed to work. The dialogue box where you test to see > > if it works duing install, showed it to be working. > > > > Now when logged in I can hylite text in console mode and it sort of > > shivers and glitters as well as hylites. But no movement of text from > > one place to another seems possible. To insert something at the > > command line, isn't happening. Left click, hylite and copy, right > > click paste isn't it? > > Not in UNIX. Paste with middle button. Of course, I tried every combination known to man including middle mouse. No go. But in console mode isn't it just right mouse to paste? I know its middle mouse in X but haven't installed X stuff yet. On linux box its just right mouse in console mode to paste. But like I said, middle mouse doesn't do it either. -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com Running Redhat Linux-5.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message