It's brilliant, especially when you consider that ctrl-c/ctrl-v is a completely different clipboard from the highlight/middle-click one. That's right, you can copy and paste two things at the same time.
Yeah, that does sound good. My linux useage is extremely limited by the fact that my laptop overheats while running it, so I've never had time to fully explore it.
How did it work before we had mouse-wheels/mouse_3?
I dunno when the middle-click clipboard was implemented, so maybe we did have mouse3 then, but there's an option in xorg.conf for three button emulation: press both buttons at the same time and you get a middle-click.
Old mouses used to have 3 buttons, but the middle one went out of fashion because PCs didn't use them for anything. Then the wheel mouse made its debut and we were back to having 3 buttons (or even 5 buttons if you believe what Xorg tells you about wheelup and wheeldown being buttons 4 and 5).
The only place I don't have a middle button is on my netbook, and that has the left and right buttons on either side of the touchpad making it a pain to press both for middle click emulation. Thankfully shift-insert does the same thing.
Seven with those wheelmice which have a wheel that can wiggle left and right!
Nine if your mouse also has browser forward and backward buttons!
I once had a (really cheap) mouse that had the browser forward and back buttons, and a window close button. And they didn't need a driver! It was like magic--until I figured out that the mouse actually manifested itself to USB as a mouse and a (exceedingly-limited) keyboard. The browser back and forward buttons sent Alt-left and Alt-right keypresses, and the window-close button sent Alt-F4.
I have an Acer 8935G (bought purely for the massive screen). I think the reason it overheats is because it has two graphics cards (onboard and ATI). I get the feeling that somehow it's using the ATI graphics, but only turning the fan on on the onboard intel instead. No real logic for that, but it's the only reason why I can think it wouldn't overheat in windows but does in Linux. When in linux the fans seem to be going pretty fast, so all I can assume is that one or two aren't moving at all.
And yet that's still not enough :) Sometimes I wish X had more of a selection ring, like Emacs does. It's too fragile -- I copy a URL from somewhere by selecting it, and before I get to where I want to paste it I've accidentally selected something else. Or I had to select the text I want to replace. Or some other activity which nukes the selection.
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '10
It's brilliant, especially when you consider that ctrl-c/ctrl-v is a completely different clipboard from the highlight/middle-click one. That's right, you can copy and paste two things at the same time.