CentOS - Jan 2012 - vmware player CentOS 6 2-button 3-button touch pad with pointing device Lenovo ThinkPad

Hi All,

Question:

What (how, where) I need to set (configure) to make 'middle' button on
the touch pad acting as a '__paste__' button? when I run LINUX (CentOS
6.2) as guest on MS Windows 7 Home premium ?


Details:

LENOVO T520 laptop
touch pad with 3 buttons
pointing device (red small mushroom) between GHB keys
vmware host: MS Windows 7 Home Premium edition 64-bit
vmware guest: CentoOS 6.2 64-bit
vmware player version: 4.01

As you all know, on UNIX/LINUX the copy/paste function works slightly
different than on MS Windows-ware.

When one would like to copy&paste a text, he/she needs to do:

A) press left button and move the cursor to highlight the text of interest,
B) release left button and finally
C) paste the contents of buffer(clipboard)  with click on the middle button.

Unfortunately, this function does not work on CentoOS 6 as a  guest OS
running on vmware player on WIN 7.
 In order for me to do the copy/paste, I need to
A) highlight the text,
B) click on right button and select 'copy' to move the? highlighted
text into the buffer(clipboard),
C) move the cursor to the destination position,
D) click the right button again and select the 'paste' function.

In other words, 'copy&paste' on CentOS 6.2 works like
'copy&paste' on
MS WINDOWS-ware.

Is there a way to revert the 'copy&paste' functionality back to the
traditional UNIX way of doing it,
highlight the text with left mouse/touchpad button and paste it with
the middle mouse/touchpad button.

Any hint | solution | RTFM pointer | advice is more than welcome

Thanks in advance

Igor

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On Monday 09 January 2012 23:36:53 Igor Furlan wrote:
> Is there a way to revert the 'copy&paste' functionality back to
the
> traditional UNIX way of doing it,
> highlight the text with left mouse/touchpad button and paste it with
> the middle mouse/touchpad button.
AFAIK, it *should* work while in CentOS. I mean, when both the select and 
paste operations are inside CentOS.

Selecting in Windows and pasting in CentOS (and vice versa) has to be done in 
the Windows-style. I am yet to see a Windows machine configured to have the 
"select" and "copy" operations merged into one, let alone
"paste"-ing with the
middle mouse button... ;-)
> Any hint | solution | RTFM pointer | advice is more than welcome
Maybe take a look at gpm?

man gpm
yum info gpm

HTH, :-)
Marko