Re: Mouse C&P not working

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On 01/14/2012 03:47 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:33 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:01 +0330, ali.mousavi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I guess to enable this you first need to install the package
xf86-input-mouse.

AFAK there is usually no need to install the "xf86-input-mouse" package. my
mouse is working just fine. copying and pasting using mouse is handled with
X and it doesn't have anything to do with the driver. Just check your X
settings or your DE and see if something is wrong.
There are different ways to set up a mouse. It hasn't to be done by any
file inside /etc/X11. On Debian I edited another file, can't remember
it's location. Anyway, wheel emulation could be an issue.

I guess the wheel emulation is a X setting somewhere in /etc, e.g.
xorg.conf and that ominous file I can't remember, but perhaps the option
to use the third button for C&P is a task of the DE.

I want to get rid of the C&P option :D. Shortcuts and mouse options at
the moment are less important for me, so I didn't search for it, I still
try to get an audio out signal :(.

Anyway, there are new issues for the mouse on current Linux. When I was
using Debian I had to get rid of my PS/2 mouse, because the wheel didn't
work. I bought a USB mouse. The USB mouse was ok, but after some
upgrades no mouse worked anymore. For Arch my USB mouse is ok again.

- Ralf
PS:
FWIW I don't have xf86-input-keyboard installed, but I guess without a
DE

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        #Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

does set up the keyboard. Can't remember and won't test it now.

Last year I noticed that some thingies that worked the last 9 years with
Linux stopped working, one of those thingies for me is an old mouse.
Regarding to X a widespread issue seems to be that the nv driver is
dropped, fortunately Arch still includes it to the repositories.
I am thankful for that as well or else I would never be able to shutdown or reboot my laptop. NV driver is the only one that I can get to work reliably with my video card. Nouveau is even worse of a driver to use for my card over the proprietary. Its sad I cant use a video driver that works reliably that's actually being developed. I hope they get X and nvidia sorted out soon.

About the C&P are you sure that you don't have one of those paste programs running in the background that you did not configure. I remember I accidentally got one installed not paying attention to an install and I had to remove it to get my C&P back to normal.


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