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Re: What do you know? Snit...

John Gohde
SubjectRe: What do you know? Snit actually saved the day for Moi.
FromJohn Gohde
Date05/17/2016 13:55 (05/17/2016 04:55)
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On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 11:39:14 PM UTC-4, Snit wrote:

John Gohde
On 5/16/16, 8:05 PM, in article ca59288c-0a57-4541-9608-5a46ceb11a74@googlegroups.com, "John Gohde" <john.h.gohde@gmail.com>wrote:

On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 9:10:22 PM UTC-4, Snit wrote:

On 5/16/16, 5:40 PM, in article caa3715a-d6b1-4ad4-8720-40fd1cb92f5c@googlegroups.com, "John Gohde" <john.h.gohde@gmail.com>wrote:

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I don't know. I do try to move around by scrolling the wheel on my mouse.

I shall take a look at turning that feature off.

I would suggest it. I know a lot of people like the feature but to me it is like the damned clicking on a track pad. When you want to move you end up clicking accidently.

Anyway, just a thought on a possible cause of the problem... let me know if it turns out that is what is causing it.

What do you know? Snit actually saved the day for Moi.

I was not aware of this mouse pasting feature, which supposedly can be traced back to UNIX. On the face of it, it seems to be a rather insane feature. But, what do I know?

So like it... me, I do not. I do use my middle mouse button for all sorts of other things though - programmed to do what I want in different programs.

You cannot turn the feature off, but Moi came across a terminal script that apparently turned this feature off, more or less. From my testing of this mouse pasting feature, the terminal script appears to have worked.

One thing I like on my system is how I can control these things so heavily.

<https://youtu.be/sdSiYE7lbQI>

In addition, I turned the sensitivity of my mouse way down.

Moi' world's view has been shaken to the core by Snit. Thanks for the tip, Bud. ONLY time will tell if this solves my Bracket problem.

Happy to help... at its best THIS is what COLA should be about.

To Moi, the mouse on a PC has ONLY two buttons. About all that I can master is the right click.

And that is fine. For me I like mine with more buttons:

That is what the keyboard is there for, Putz!!!!

People who misuse their tools should be shot, at dawn.

The mouse is there for traversing the desktop and webpage, as well as for bring up the right click menu. Definitely not for pasting text. Of course, if you happen to be on drugs ... all things are possible.

At the very least you should be able to select what you want the mouse wheel and other buttons to be used for. I went through a 3-button mouse phase in Windows. Pretty much a total waste ...

With all the overkill options in Mint, you would think it would be there, but it clearly is not.

Oops, the pasting problem might still be there ... What a retarded feature of Linux is all that I can say.