Re: [orca-list] how to copy text from the terminal

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
It used to be possible to copy text from gnome-terminal to the clipboard but gnome dropped the ball and has let a bug stay in for several releases that prevents this now. All hope is not lost though. Here's something that may help, read the section on screen:
http://stormdragon.us/?p=118
HTH
Storm

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On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 14:04 -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi all.
> Probably this was already discussed before.
>
> I found the following in the manual of gnome-terminal.
>
> To select and copy text:
>
> You can select text in any of the following ways:
> To select a character at a time, click on the first character that you 
> want to select and drag the mouse to the last character that you want to 
> select.
> To select a word at a time, double-click on the first word that you want 
> to select and drag the mouse to the last word that you want to select. 
> Symbols are selected individually.
> To select a line at a time, triple-click on the first line that you want 
> to select and drag the mouse to the last line that you want to select.
> These actions select all text between the first and last items. For all 
> text selections, GNOME Terminal copies the selected text into the 
> clipboard when you release the mouse button. To explicitly copy the 
> selected text, choose Edit ▸ Copy.
>
> My question:
> How to drag the mouse using orca?
> Thanks.
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> José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
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