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Copy/Paste under Xwindows

Hi ,

All the users in our lab are using the middle mouse button to copy/paste
sometime the middle mouse button stop functioning to some people

can someone explain how to reconfigure the middle button ?

Thanks

Victor

dschwartzer

as a workaround: when the middle button stop functioning, give a left+right button click a try.

victorbx

ASKER

Well,
i succeeded to paste using left+right only because i edited /etc/X11/XFREE86.config-4
and enabled middle mouse emulation...

But this is not what i am looking for, i need the middle button to work

Thanks
Victor

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victorbx

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Well The issue is that we are working in a lab
and the users move the computers from one table to another ,
and not all the tables have the same type of mouse ,
all of them are ps/2 mouses but some of them are with 3 buttons and
some are with 2 buttons

Gns

Then the only viable option is implied above:
Use protocol "Auto" (with fingers crossed:-) ... and perhaps emulate3buttons too (if it works, I've no time to test unfortunately)...

Or live with it that you need reconfigure the mouzse every time you change it.

-- Glenn