HOWTO: Copy and Paste fast

**apoc** · January 24th, 2005

Taken from page 21 ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software...rary/l-faq.pdf

Often when you follow howto you have to copy and paste alot of text into your command promt, and for some reason CTRL+V wont paste into the promt, but right click and select paste works, however page 21 of the above mentioned pdf file mentions an even faster way then the typical CTRL+C -> CTRL+V that even works.

You highlight the text you wish to copy, and press the middle mouse butten (useally the weel) then paste it into the promt or other document with another click on the middle mouse button.

I hope it helps someone

**piedamaro** · January 24th, 2005

Yep, it's the X clipboard

**pseudonym** · January 24th, 2005

On my machine all I have to do is highlight the text, and this alone seems to perform the copy operation. Then I paste it with one click of the 'Thumb Button' (on a LOgitech Mouseman Wheel, which I used as a double-click button in windows). I would never have guessed!

**wallijonn** · February 22nd, 2005

That's good Trick / tip.

**JmSchanck** · February 22nd, 2005

Originally Posted by pseudonym

On my machine all I have to do is highlight the text, and this alone seems to perform the copy operation. Then I paste it with one click of the 'Thumb Button' (on a LOgitech Mouseman Wheel, which I used as a double-click button in windows). I would never have guessed!

Yeah i noticed this too with my logitech MX 310, the "Thumb button" is just another button 3 and the "Pinky button" on the opposite side acts as another right click. By the way if anyone can tell me a way to reprogram these it would be great.

And about pasting into the prompt CTRL+SHIFT+V works as well.

**DownloadTHIS** · March 2nd, 2005

Originally Posted by JmSchanck

Yeah i noticed this too with my logitech MX 310, the "Thumb button" is just another button 3 and the "Pinky button" on the opposite side acts as another right click. By the way if anyone can tell me a way to reprogram these it would be great.

And about pasting into the prompt CTRL+SHIFT+V works as well.

I had the same problem with my mouse.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Find the line that says: Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True
Replace that line with: Option "Buttons" "7"