X-Windows M$ Windows question

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 2 16:15:08 UTC 2005


Alex Beamish wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>My sincerest apologies if this is off topic but how can I replicate the
>>middle button cut/paste functionality on X-Windows on M$ Windows? 
> 
> 1. Yes, this probably is off-topic for a Linux users mailing list. We
> discuss Linux here, not how Windows can emulate some of the cool
> things that Linux can do. :)
> 
> 2. Have you searched Google? In less than a minute I turned up
> 
>   http://www.shelltoys.com/mouse_software/
> 
> which seems to be an answer to your question. And that was choice #2
> of 933,000 based on 'windows utility paste with mouse'.

Hmmm...  So, XP needs a third party utility, to accomplish what
Linux/Unix can do out of the box.  ;-)

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