Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:57:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse behavior Message-ID: <19981002135757.K26384@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <m3ogrvobbz.fsf@chub.local>; from Harry Putnam on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:08:00PM -0700 References: <m3ww6joe46.fsf@chub.local> <19981002124913.D26384@freebie.lemis.com> <m3ogrvobbz.fsf@chub.local>
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On Thursday, 1 October 1998 at 21:08:00 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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.
According to moused(8):
Cut and paste functions in the virtual console assume that there are
three buttons on the mouse. The logical button 1 (logical left) selects
a region of text in the console and copies it to the cut buffer. The
logical button 3 (logical right) extends the selected region. The logi-
cal button 2 (logical middle) pastes the selected text at the text cursor
position. If the mouse has only two buttons, the middle, `paste' button
is not available.
I've just tried it (I don't normally use the text modes) and it works
fine for me. I assume you have enabled the mouse, because otherwise
you wouldn't have been highlighting, though the sparklies suggest you
might have a strange video board. What is it?
Also, how are you trying to paste? Into what?
Greg
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