[arch-general] Mouse C&P not working

[Peter Nikolic]

On Saturday 14 Jan 2012 10:28:02 Ralf Madorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 08:58 +0000, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > 
> > another little glitch  i use an "Logitech Marble Mouse" Trackball but
> > since installing Arch i have been unable to get the  C&P working at all
> > well  , the only way i can get anything like is to copy to the
> > clipboard switch app then paste from clipboard  .
> > 
> > I am used to just grabing with the mouse and pasting straight to the
> > relevent place without the un wanted extra steps  i believe it need an
> > mouse section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d   but cant find any info on
> > creating one   any help please
> Hi Pete :)
> 
> for my Arch, using Xfce, C&P using the mouse wheel button is working by
> default. There are no settings for xorg.conf on my machine.
> 
> FWIW the xorg.conf entries might be
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> 	Driver		"mouse"
> 	Option		"CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> I guess to enable this you first need to install the package
> xf86-input-mouse.
> 
> Hth,
> 
> Ralf

Hi Ralf

Ok  wonder if it is a KDE problem  .. i have   xf86-input-mouse installed  

this is going to bug me now it makes life so hard having to  edit -> copy   
edit -> paste   even within this mail  Bahhhhhhhhhhh  humbugger it 

Pete .