Bug 161928

Summary:	bsdinstall(8): (add option to enable 2 button mouse copy/paste)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Joe barbish <fbsd8>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	Keywords:	install
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Joe barbish 2011-10-23 12:20:00 UTC

The three-button mouse has gone the same way as the floppy drive.

I read a post saying that usb mouse has the copy/paste function enabled as
default. I tested this on 9.0 RC1 and can report that with a two-button USB
mouse the copy/paste function does not work.

This statement has to be added to /etc/rc.conf to enable two-button mouse copy/paste function. This works for all USB, serial port, and ps2 two-button mouses.  

moused_flags="-m 2=3"


Requesting that bsdinstall be updated to offer user option to enable two-button mouse copy/paste function.

Lets bring the secret out into the open that Freebsd has text console two-button mouse copy/paste function and make it easy for the user to enable this function using the bsdinstall process.

Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2011-10-23 15:00:23 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

assign and fix synopsis

Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 07:59:36 UTC

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Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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