Swarthmore College Department of Computer Science

xfce mouse

xfce rodent In xfce, if you left-click on the rodent icon, you get the main menu. If you right-click on any of the application icons, you can customize things.

cutting and pasting

You can usually cut and paste (e.g., from xterm to xterm) by dragging across text with the left mouse button held down, and then clicking the middle mouse button to paste.

Sometimes you need to click the left mouse button to put the cursor where you want to paste (e.g., in an emacs window), and then click the middle mouse button.