Re: [SLE] Flac to OGG conversion?
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 8:21 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
Konsole is kinda wierd to me in that it has nothing for copy/cut and the outdated shift-insert for paste.
How about select with mouse to copy and center mouse button to paste?
You select with the mouse then hit or click what? I'm not sure I understand. As for a middle button, isn't that only on older Sun computers? I remember my Sparc 20 having one. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
At 10:34 AM 1/4/2006 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: /snip/
How about select with mouse to copy and center mouse button to paste?
You select with the mouse then hit or click what? I'm not sure I understand. As for a middle button, isn't that only on older Sun computers? I remember my Sparc 20 having one.
/snip/ Quintronix makes a trackball with a center button, but you'll have to rewire it to make it work with Linux. Disconnect the center button from the existing circuitry and diode-OR it with the left and right buttons. This will give the effect of pushing the two outside buttons at the same time, which Linux understands as a center push. However, I have found that the Quintronix, as well as some clones that do not have the name on the front, "slip" after a couple of years and have to be replaced. A company called Moustrak also makes a ball with a center button, or used to, but the price was truly outrageous. It was very rugged, however. It would undoubtedly be possible to write some code that interprets whatever the center button originally does, and tells Linux that it is whatever Linux wants, but I'm not the one to do this. It is probably simpler just to get an optical mouse or trackball and push the left and right buttons together to paste. --dm -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.12/220 - Release Date: 1/3/2006
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 2:46 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 10:34 AM 1/4/2006 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: /snip/
How about select with mouse to copy and center mouse button to paste?
You select with the mouse then hit or click what? I'm not sure I understand. As for a middle button, isn't that only on older Sun computers? I remember my Sparc 20 having one.
/snip/
Quintronix makes a trackball with a center button, but you'll have to rewire it to make it work with Linux. Disconnect the center button from the existing circuitry and diode-OR it with the left and right buttons. This will give the effect of pushing the two outside buttons at the same time, which Linux understands as a center push. However, I have found that the Quintronix, as well as some clones that do not have the name on the front, "slip" after a couple of years and have to be replaced.
A company called Moustrak also makes a ball with a center button, or used to, but the price was truly outrageous. It was very rugged, however.
It would undoubtedly be possible to write some code that interprets whatever the center button originally does, and tells Linux that it is whatever Linux wants, but I'm not the one to do this.
It is probably simpler just to get an optical mouse or trackball and push the left and right buttons together to paste.
Not necessary to push two buttons , Logitech optical mouse has wheel that is also third (center) button... werks just fine thanx.. always has out of box; plug in and go.. Scroll wheel and the center button are just fine unless you have a legacy app which doesn't support center wheel. ( you can push the wheel or if you've long fingernails there is a bit of actual button you can push ... Or w/ most of the logitech meece there are side buttons which can be assigned but that is not needed to make it work . -- j Don't try to change my attitude or rearrange my latitude; Don't tell me what I think, I gotta get me some boat drinks
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 2:46 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
It would undoubtedly be possible to write some code that interprets whatever the center button originally does, and tells Linux that it is whatever Linux wants, but I'm not the one to do this.
It is probably simpler just to get an optical mouse or trackball and push the left and right buttons together to paste.
If you are using a two-button mouse, pressing left and right together works as a simulated "center click" on all Linux systems I have seen. However, in my opinion, a two button mouse is antiquated. Get one with a scroll wheel for the web and longer documents. The scroll wheel can also be pressed as a center button. This type of mouse is available everywhere and inexpensive. It will work with both scrolling and center clicking in Linux "out of the box." No rewiring or recoding needed. Bryan **************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.3.2 KMail 1.7.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ****************************************
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:34 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 8:21 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
Konsole is kinda wierd to me in that it has nothing for copy/cut and the outdated shift-insert for paste.
How about select with mouse to copy and center mouse button to paste?
You select with the mouse then hit or click what? I'm not sure I understand. As for a middle button, isn't that only on older Sun computers? I remember my Sparc 20 having one.
Push and hold the left mouse button, move the pointer over the text you want to copy, release the mouse button and push the middle mouse button to paste. No more magic involved than that. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:46, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:34 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 8:21 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
Konsole is kinda wierd to me in that it has nothing for copy/cut and the outdated shift-insert for paste.
How about select with mouse to copy and center mouse button to paste?
You select with the mouse then hit or click what? I'm not sure I understand. As for a middle button, isn't that only on older Sun computers? I remember my Sparc 20 having one.
Push and hold the left mouse button, move the pointer over the text you want to copy, release the mouse button and push the middle mouse button to paste. No more magic involved than that.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Linux by default uses 3 button mice. If you only have a two button mouse, pressing the left and right buttons at the same time emulates a middle button.. Peter C
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:00, Peter Collier wrote:
Linux by default uses 3 button mice. If you only have a two button mouse, pressing the left and right buttons at the same time emulates a middle button..
Also note that just about all wheel mice have three buttons. The wheel is a button, just press it to paste
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