Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

From	Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ <zp6cge@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]
Date	2024-06-13 14:20 +0200
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On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad
> > of laptop. As it worked years ago.
>
> Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks
> that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups.  I
> haven't seen that in practice in quite some time.  I think people
> mostly stopped implementing it, because two-button mice (without
> scroll wheels) fell out of the market.
>
> > Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why?
>
> I forgot about laptops with touchpads.  Unfortunately, this is not
> an area that I've had to research, so I don't know what the current X
> and Wayland implementations do to emulate three-button mice.  Maybe
> someone else knows, or maybe you can find some modern-day
> documentation about it on the Internet.

Dear Greg,

on my TUXEDO Laptop the touchpad is configurable.
e.g. middle mouse button == tap with two fingers
or like I opted for 'tap harder onto the lower right corner' of the
touchpad.

just my 2 cents
and thanks because I learned a lot from your posts!
Kind regards
Eike

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Copy from xterm to text editor........ Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> - 2024-06-13 04:30 +0200
  Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-13 05:00 +0200
    Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Aleix Piulachs <ap77.v68@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 05:10 +0200
    Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> - 2024-06-13 08:20 +0200
      Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 09:20 +0200
      Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-13 13:30 +0200
        Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2024-06-13 14:20 +0200
        Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Aleix Piulachs <ap77.v68@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 15:40 +0200
        Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2024-06-14 02:00 +0200
      Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 17:40 +0200
  Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-06-13 05:20 +0200
    Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-06-14 02:40 +0200

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