Re: [orca-list] how to select text when in gnome-terminal

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 05:03:39PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> You need to pipe it to xclip from another program or use input redirection in
> the standard ways provided for by the shell in order to get the text there.

No, in the past, we were able to select text with the flat review
slash key as previously mentioned in this thread and then use the
standard methods to copy to the clipboard with either Edit/Copy or by
pressing shift+Control+C.  The copying to the clipboard part still
works fine.  One way one could copy text from the terminal to the
clipboard could be to select the entire screen with Edit/Select all
and then drop the entire contents into an edit window or perhaps a
native console's edit environment where it could be cut down to size;
hoky indeed but works for the time being.

> echo $DISPLAY from Gnome-terminal and make sure you are using exactly the same
> value as the display option when invoking xclip from the console session.

Actually I have even a later development in this area.  I just
discovered that if I get into gnome with 'startx' from a normal user
login, xclip behaves it's good ol' self.  When I login through gdm,
xclip gives the error I showed last time.  Strange problem but it
probably isn't worth hassling too much about.  I like using the gdm
login facility but if I want xclip bad enough, I guess I can give up
one of my 12 VCs to support logging in from one of my user terminals.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEAREDAAYFAkvJadYACgkQWSjv55S0LfGuhgCgrzVupeNr/OZpbGQ9lZadbrS1
o6oAoJek61kg6KszS1/wygwG5UzfhgtN
=+nwF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----