Re: [orca-list] a couple of basic questions

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

John:

I use these commands in a regular tty all day long to paste between the
Speakup clipboard and the Gnome clipboard. I wish we had a more
automated way of doing that, but so far, we don't afaik.

As to what you paste, it doesn't matter. It can be any string. A
filename, a URI, a credit card number, whatever. It doesn't matter.

John Covici writes:
> But the xclip manpage seems to want you to execute it in a
> gnome-terminal or other session, not a regular tty.  When you say
> selection, do you mean a file name?
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:48:02 -0400,
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hi, John:
> >
> > To get content from a bash tty into xclip I use an alias I've created
> > that basically does:
> >
> > xclip -i -selection clipboard\n
> >
> > From there I paste, most often using the Speakup paste command followed
> > by a pair of Ctrl-d commands.
> >
> > FYI: going the other way, I have an alias that prints out on a tty:
> >
> > xclip -o -selection clipboard\n
> >
> > I should tweak that second one a bit because it's always followed by my
> > bash prompt without any kind of break. But, what can I say. I can work
> > with it and fixing that isn't a high priority for me.
> >
> > hth
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > John Covici writes:
> > > Hi.  I have some basic questions about gnome -- using 3.30 I think.
> > > How to get a file into the clipboard?  I tried xclip -r <filename> but
> > > nothing happened.  I know this because control-shift-v did not paste
> > > anything into the terminal window.
> > >
> > > I would also like to know if there is a way to open a file with
> > > firefox and actually type its name.  I see things to navigate, but I
> > > just want to be able to type the name.  Can I do firefox <file name> ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > > How do
> > > you spend it?
> > >
> > >          John Covici wb2una
> > >          covici ccs covici com
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > orca-list gnome org
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka
> >
> > Linux Foundation Fellow
> > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:   http://a11y.org
> >
> > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures    http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
>
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici ccs covici com

-- 

Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa