Copy-Paste w/o ctrl+C and ctrl+V, but with mouse buttons: where did it go ... ?

[Doug]

On 06/11/2014 11:15 PM, theuteck at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:07:57 PM Ulrich Grün wrote:
>> Hallo list,
>>
>> one nice thing of Linux (among others), was the ability to copy a text
>> by just highlighting it and paste it with simultaneous pressing of two
>> mouse buttons (left and right button). This was very fast method to C/P
>> lots of texts to and fro.
>> After upgrading to a new video card, this feature was gone (the text is
>> still copied by highlighting it, but I cannot paste it any more by
>> pressing the two mouse buttons).
>>
>> I have not found out how to re-enable this feature again. I remember,
>> that in the old days (SuSE?), this was done at the mouse setting in the
>> control panel. Probably, it can be configured in the xorg.conf, but
>> neither its man-page nor Google helped me.
>>
>> Is here anybody who knows?
> That is part of X and not the window manager.   When you upgraded the video
> card did you have to change/update drivers? I wonder if the middle button
> emulation got turned off.  The video driver may have some config were you can
> turn that back on, or you can make an x.org config and us it.  X.org will use
> the config if it finds one.
>
Please send the exact wording of the x.org config that would do this. Thanx.

--doug