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oha

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Registered: 2018-01-12

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[Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

Hi all,

just after installing, I desperately miss the possibility Xorg's feature of selecting text and pasting with my middle mouse button.
How do I enable this?

TIA
/oha

Last edited by oha (2018-01-12 14:01:27)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

Works here, are you actually on wayland as opposed to Xorg? No idea if this is possible on wayland (or rather,gnome mutter's implementation).

oha

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

aargh, you're right I'm on wayland. Didn't expect that to be misbehaving, going to dump that and retry.

Thanks a lot
/oha

oha

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

nope, I was wrong, I'm on X...

root      1282   406 11 12:06 tty1     00:00:03 /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{ad5d0857-bc2c-4b01-a827-6a0ddc20fba7} -background none -noreset -displayfd 18 -seat seat0 vt1

sry
anyone else?

/oha

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

You've not given us much to work with. Where are you selecting the text, where are you trying to paste it?

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oha

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

You are right. Selecting from terminal and pasting to firefox doesn't do it, as well as vice versa.

oh and before anyone asks: I'm on xfce using an Made in China optical mouse with scroll wheel/middle button

/oha

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

Which terminal emulator? I'm sure there are a few that support this.

oha

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

Are you really sure that all this is necessary to know? I'm just looking for the knob in X to switch on. So where do I need to look?
I'm looking for the X-feature, not any obscure terminal related settings.

terminals tried: xterm,xfce4-terminal

seth

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

There is no global "knob" for is anywhere.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cl … ouse_click

Ensure your mouse button works and is actually button 2

xev -event mouse | grep button

Ensure this isn't isolated to some client bug: does it fail everywhere (test xterm ...) or only among certain clients?

The way to figure your session type is

loginctl session-status

But I don't think xfce has wayland support.

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oha

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

Cheers.
The real problem is sitting in front of the screen.
It's the mouse, no 3th button, but pressing produced a click sound.

Thanks a million
/oha

seth

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

Please mark the thread as reolved or report it for deletion.

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oha

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

what do I need to do to mark it [solved] ?

seth

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Re: [Solved] Missing paste using middle mouse button

edit your first post.
You should btw. read the newbie stickies.

Edit: t

Last edited by seth (2018-01-12 14:00:16)

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