On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:36:36PM +0200, Lee Cheng Siang wrote:
> The reason for this quest for transparency came as an accident
> actually. I was looking for hints on how to do cut and paste between
> X11.app and other MacApps since I have a single button mouse, I can't
> seems to do what I normally do on my Linux box and Irix boxes i.e.
> "highlight" and center click.
Er, yes it does work, with any window manager (after all, X events are
generated by the X server - the window manager has nothing to do with
it). The --proxy-only thing helps with cut-and-paste focus, I think. I
use quartz-wm as my window manager anyway, and have no problems with the
Ctrl-click and option-click for buttons 2 and 3 respectively.
Most of the time this isn't a problem, since I have a three button mouse
plugged in. Three-button USB mice are very very cheap - why not just go
out and buy one? It doesn't have to say "Mac compatible" on the box - I
use one of those tiny Microsoft USB optical wheel mice when I'm on the
road, and it works like a charm with my PowerBook. When I'm at work I
use a Microsoft trackball. It worked fine without the drivers
installed, although if you install the Microsoft drivers you can program
the extra buttons, which I find very useful.
> So my question now involves getting cut and paste to work in X11. How
> may I do that?
Make sure you have "emulate three button mouse" switched on in the
X11.app preferences.
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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