Copy words still broken

[Karl Larsen]

Nataraj wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:05 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     Use the example that is above this starting with open two Terminal 
>> windows. I was told my problem was a stuck key on my keyboard. But 2 
>> keyboards act the same.
>>
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>> -- 
>>
>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 	Linux User
>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>
>>     
>
> HI Karl,
>
> I would start by running the xev program and put the mouse in the black
> box and see if you are generating a button 2 press and release by
> pressing both the left and right button.  Also check the left and right
> button seperately.
>
> When I run xev I get the following by pressing either button 2 or button
> 1&3 simultaneously:
>
> ButtonPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00002,
>     root 0x6a, subw 0x0, time 1164427903, (95,96), root:(110,198),
>     state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
>
> ButtonRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00002,
>     root 0x6a, subw 0x0, time 1164428195, (95,96), root:(110,198),
>     state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES
>
>
> If you are not generating the button2 press, I would look to see if you
> have the "Emulate3buttons" option for your mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> My mouse section looks like this:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> I have a 3 button mouse, but I can also generate button 2 using the left
> and right button simultaneously.
>
> If you are still not generating the button 2 press, then I would look to
> see if somthing is accidently remapped at the x server level, such as
> with xmodmap or in the xorg.conf (I don't know if this is possible).
>
> I believe there is more than one clipboard and I've seen some
> application at times screw up the behaviour of the clipboard, in
> particular, I've seen this with vmware and sometimes with emacs.
> I would try this after restarting your x server with out having run any
> applications other than the terminal.
>
> Nataraj
>
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Hi and thank you. I found that the darn thing had "no" for emulate. I 
fixed that. How it got to be no I have no idea....

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.