Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:40:53 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Patrick Thomas" <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEBMCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020227123846.M67780-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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Please explain how you do the cut function? -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Thomas [mailto:root@utility.clubscholarship.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:40 PM To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Subject: RE: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? actually the console mode freeBSD cursor _does_ have cut and paste, and it works just fine if you have a middle mouse button to do the pasting. But I don't, so someone was kind enough to show me a kernel config to allow use of the right button for paste instead of the middle button in console mode. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > Patrick, > > You are missing the secret key to copy & pasting with the mouse. > It's sooo simple, but sooo different than ms/windows. > On your screen you will see 2 cursers. > One moves by the mouse and the other moves by the > keyboard arrow buttons. > > Here is the sequence to use copy & past. > Use the mouse to position the mouse curser at the start position > of what you want to copy, hold down left mouse button to high-light > what you want to select. Once you release the left mouse button > you will hear your hard drive work as the selected info is written > to the clip board. > > Now here is the secret stuff. > Use the keyboard arrow to move the non-mouse curser to the position > you want to start the past at. Then move the mouse curser to the > keyboard arrow curser and as it get closer it will turn into an arrow. > Position this mouse curser arrow on the keyboard arrow curser and then > click both mouse buttons at same time and bada bing it's pasted. > > For your info FBSD console mouse support does not have the cut function > or the point & click functions one may be custom to from ms/windows. > All it has is copy & past. > > Below is my rc.conf statements to active console mouse copy & past function. > > moused_enable="YES" # Run the mouse daemon. > moused_port="/dev/psm0" # PS/2 > moused_type="auto" # > moused_flags="-3" # press both mouse button to past > allscreens_flags="-m on" # Set this vidcontrol mode for all > # virtual screens.[mouse on] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick Thomas > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:20 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? > > > I am successfully running the mouse daemon (the mouse is moving on the > screen, and I can select text with it). > > I am not running X, I am simply in console mode. Question: > > How do I paste ? > > I tried both buttons at the same time, and I tried shift-insert. No dice. > > I read in a news posting that console mode mouse will only paste with the > middle mouse button, but I don't have a middle mouse button because I am > using a _normal PC just like everybody else_. > > So how do I paste in console mode with a two-button mouse ? > > thanks! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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