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Alex Charrett wrote:
Console and X mouse behavior are controlled by different systems, I very much doubt that either is a kernel issue. It may however be hard-coded into the gpm(console mouse services) or XFree code.
It's definitely nothing to do with the kernel, the closest it comes to knowing about mice is the mouse drivers, but that is down at the "mouse moves so much to the right" or "left mouse button clicked". At the console it is gpm that provides a mouse at all. In X each application places selections in PRIMARY, and middle mouse button defaults to pasting primary. This isn't really a clipboard as such, and is cooperative as far as I know, so you can write apps that don't do it (Not being able to cut and paste between apps is a security requirement in some environments - you can get too paranoid). I don't recognise precisely the behaviour described. Having a three button mouse nothing requires two mouse buttons together, or a double click, other than the "two click - highlight a word - three click highlight a line". Highlighting a word copies it to primary - usually control-C/Control-V copy to a genuine WM clipboard - maybe Kevin should check out the various clipboards for X, KDE, GNOME etc. xclipboard is a bit naff, but hey it works. -- "Don't get me started on intuitive. You know what's intuitive? Fear of heights. Everything else we call intuitive, such as walking or using a pencil took years of practice." - Don Norman -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.