Can No Longer Double Click to Copy and Single Left Click to Paste
Colin Law
clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 22:08:31 UTC 2016
On 16 February 2016 at 21:31, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am running BioLinux v-8.0, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 6a Bit), in a
>> VMWare Workstation 12 Player on a Win 10 Laptop.
>>
>>
>>
>> After reinstalling the Win OS after a crash and reinstalling BioLinux I
>> find that I can no longer copy by double left clicking and the paste with a
>> right Mouse slick.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help will be much appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>
> That does not sound like default behavior for Ubuntu, so you will probably
> need to turn to BioLinux to get whatever support they provide.
>
> P.S.: I had never heard of the described behavior, but a web search implied
> it's the default behavior for Putty, a Windows SSH utility, and some
> terminals in linux offer it as a feature that can be activated. SO if the
> behavior you are describing occurs in a utility that appears in a terminal
> window, then you might check whether 1) the settings for your terminal
> program have been changed inadvertently or 2) the default terminal that
> comes up in your distro has changed. Since you said you are running BioLinux
> in a VMWare player under Windows 10, I suppose you may have another two
> layers of complexity to explore.
It is close to the behaviour in Ubuntu. The description is not quite
right however. In gedit, for example, double clicking a word will
select it (but not copy it to the paste buffer). Middle click (in
gedit or another app) will not paste from the paste buffer but does
insert the current marked text at the cursor. Note middle click not
right click.
@OP are you sure you meant right click and not middle click to insert the text?
Colin
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