From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 1 21:28:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25982 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25956 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA04334; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:57:58 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA01119; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:57:57 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981002135757.K26384@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:57:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Harry Putnam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse behavior References: <19981002124913.D26384@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Harry Putnam on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:08:00PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 1 October 1998 at 21:08:00 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > 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. 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message