[CentOS] Copy and paste in a terminal with the mouse
Michael Best
mbest at pendragon.org
Fri Sep 30 18:44:42 UTC 2005
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Your message is not informative enough. Please describe what you did,
> what happened, and what you expected to happen. Something like this:
>
> I started a gnome-terminal (window 1)
> I started another gnome-terminal (window 2)
> I selected window 2 for focus
> I moved the mouse pointer over some text with the
> left button held down in window 2
> the text was highlighted in window 2
> I moved the mouse pointer to window 1 and selected
> focus
> I pressed the center mouse wheel button
> I expected a copy of the highlighted text in window 2
> to appear in window 1
> the text did not appear
>
> Then you can get some help. But at present, we have only a very
> vague feeling of what might be wrong.
Gnome terminal supports a copy and paste menu command no? Although I
did try the traditional copy and middle click method with two
gnome-terminals without problem.
Is your mouse configured correctly/working for copy and middle click
pasting in other applications?
-Mike
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