From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 14:27:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340B937B401 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDEA43F93 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7FLQRAL053507; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:26:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)h7FLQRG7053504; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:26:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:26:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Charles Howse In-Reply-To: <001101c3636a$f0e24630$04fea8c0@moe> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying and pasting text w/ mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:27:02 -0000 On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, no gui. > > In Linux, I can left-drag to select text in the console, then > right-click to paste it to the command line. My FreeBSD Unleashed book > says the mouse can be configured to copy and paste from the console in > FreeBSD, but darned if I can figure out how to do it. > > I've used sysinstall to configure the mouse, I get a Windows-style mouse > pointer, I can select text by dragging, but can't paste. > > Is there a magic word (Abra-ca-dabra!) one has to mumble to paste in the > console? The two typical tricks are (1) press the middle mouse button (or emulated middle mouse button), or (2) press shift-insert on the keyboard. If you don't have a middle mouse button, you can add/merge the following line to your /etc/rc.conf: moused_flags="-3" This will emulate the three button mouse by having you press both mouse buttons to indicate a third button click. Or, if you're using a USB mouse, you'll need to update the equivilent lines in usbd.conf. I believe the shift-insert support has been merged -- this is my personal favorite pasting mechanism, and it also works with good xterm implementations. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories