# Cutting and pasting?
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/cutting-and-pasting/68634
**Category:** Archived
**Tags:** linux-forum
**Created:** [May 2, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/cutting-and-pasting/68634 "2001-05-02T20:59:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@tony-kim](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/tony-kim)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/cutting-and-pasting/68634/1 "2001-05-02T20:59:46Z")
This is probably an easy fix, but does anyone know how to cut and paste between a terminal window and the maya script editor within kde…
I have installed the fam rpm which is supposed to allow this to work… anyone else run into this problem?
-justin
[justin@cyburdine.com](mailto:justin@cyburdine.com)
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### Author:  [@tony-kim](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/tony-kim)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/cutting-and-pasting/68634/2 "2001-05-05T07:36:16Z")
this was solved by AW support and thought someone might benifit.
Issue: My mouse isn’t working in the 3 button configuration, I couldn’t cut and paste from window to window.
From a terminal window type mouseconfig and choose the mouse type and configuration from the following screens.
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### Author:  [@therobear](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/therobear)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2001, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/cutting-and-pasting/68634/3 "2001-05-05T09:40:44Z")
Try using the X clipboard; highlight the text you want by dragging the left mouse button to highlight it, go to another text field window and middle-click. Voila. (Caveat: The start of the copied text is placed directly under your cursor in some circumstances.)
Or is this problem less general than I think it is…? I’m probably out of the loop here. |P