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

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
I am not sure what the bug number would be, I just remember it coming up on the list a while back, so maybe in the archives. I think we lost the ability in 8.10 or maybe 9.04.
HTH
Storm

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On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 09:40 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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, 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.
> > > -- 
> > > {}S
> > > José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
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