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

Do you have any idea where this bug might be filed or number? I would
really like to escolate this thing.  

I found a bug in the orca bug list pertaining to text selection in
gnome terminal and I have asked it to be assigned to me.  As I get
more familiar with gnome internals, orca, and all, I hope to try to
address what I can from the Orca side.  But ifthere is a formal bug
elsewhere, I'd sure like to hop on it and make some noise.

I personally tried just a few minutes ago, the ideas from Jose's
message and I could get anything to be selected.  double and tripple
clicking of a mouse with the KP+devide key keeps giving me an empty
text selection so copying to the clipboard is always empty.  I
remember when I could select and copy text from the gnome terminal and
it was really cool.

I understand you could select the entire screen and past that into a
file and go from there but that sounds too mickymouse to me; we need
something better and we had it before.

But the work on the Orca side could enable text selection from other
dialogs like static text that can't be focused on; these dialogs
aren't a part of the terminal.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:01:55PM -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:

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, Josà Vilmar EstÃcio 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 â Copy.

My question:
How to drag the mouse using orca?
Thanks.
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Josà Vilmar EstÃcio de Souza
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