[arch-general] Mouse C&P not working

[Ralf Madorf]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 09:58 -0500, Qadri wrote:
> > Left & right together has no effect here too, I need to push the wheel
> > button.
> >
> > Is this not the true 3-button mouse setup?

This is default I get most of the times for Linux installs. For me this
sometimes cause trouble, since the wheel button easily unintended could
be pushed.

> > From what files is xfce4-mouse-settings getting it's information, resp.
> > to what files are changes written? Regarding to the buttons the GUI only
> > displays right handed and left handed. There should be a file, not
> > xorg.conf, that includes settings for the buttons.
> >
> >
> The copy and paste buffer used by highlight and click is available even if
> you just use xterm in your .xinitrc, so I imagine the configuration for it
> would be somewhere in xorg.conf.d/ .
> 
> Peter, could you test out your configuration with just Xserver and xterm
> instead of a full manager? Could you also please run xev, and when the
> white square appears, click in the box with the various combinations of
> clicking that you use (e.g. one left click, one right click, one middle
> click) and post the relevant output? Do let us know the combination of
> button presses that you use.
> 
> MAQ.

I suspect that Pete's mouse has got no middle click [1].
FWIW on my system there are no entries regarding to the mouse
in .xinitrc and xorg.conf.d/.

Regards,

Ralf

[1]
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Logitech+Marble
+Mouse&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1133l1133l0l1474l1l1l0l0l0l0l103l103l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1152&bih=727&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Be0ST5-zL8rLsgbYm9gT