On 10/15/2010 08:03 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday, October 15, 2010 14:19:28 Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:03 -0400, Alex wrote: >>> Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It >>> requires me to take my hands off the keyboard twice. I'd really like >>> to be able to highlight the the mouse, and paste with a keyboard >>> combination. >> You seem to be mixing up the two methods of copying. You highlight with >> the left mouse button and copy with the middle mouse button. NO keyboard >> is involved, > No, Alex understands that there are two separate ways to copy-paste. We > clarified that before in the thread. What he wants is to unify the two > clipboard buffers --- to select with the mouse and paste with the keyboard. > Mainly because he doesn't feel comfortable clicking with the mouse wheel. > > This can probably be achieved using some clipboard manager software, but > requires some configuring. I've never done anything similar, he needs to > investigate various managers and find out. > > HTH, :-) > Marko > What Alex can do in order to force the highlighted word or text to go into the buffer that can be pasted with ctrl-shivf-v, is to 1. highlight the text or anything for that matter (such as a web page) 2. right click in the same area 3. select copy This will put the copied buffer into the same buffer that ctr-shift-v will paste in any window. This way, he completely avoids the middle button for pasting. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
