[orca-list] FWD: Re: Problem with cut & paste in GUI

[Lars Bjørndal <lars lamasti net>]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:41:44 +0200
From: Lars Bjørndal <lars lamasti net>
To: Glenn At Home <glennervin cableone net>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Problem with cut & paste in GUI

Thanks. I ment copying. And it's the selection that doesn't work. Neither do paste. I tried to open Firefox, 
go to the address bar, and copy the address to clipboard. Orca says Copying selected text to clipboard. Then 
I went into gedit and tried to paste. Nothing happened. Very strange.

Lars

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:00:10PM -0500, Glenn At Home wrote:
> If you are actually cutting instead of copying, that can be why it
> isn't working.
>
> Or perhaps you are being indiscriminate between cut and copy.
>
> You cannot cut from a web page, because cut means to remove it from
> here to put there.
>
> So do you mean copy and paste?
>
> Copy is control + C.
>
> Cut is control + X.
>
> Glenn
>
>
>
> From: [1]Lars Bjørndal via orca-list
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 2:38 PM
> To: [2]orca-list
> Subject: [orca-list] Problem with cut & paste in GUI
>
> Hello, list!
> I cannot cut and paste in GUI, and wonder if someone have tips on how
> to
> to fix.
> If e.g. I go into gedit and type some text, and then press c-a to
> select all, Orca says all selected, and right afterwords, no text
> selected. The same happens if I use the right click function, and
> choose
> Select all, and also with shift+arrow keys. It says selected, and right
> away, Not selected. I'm using mate desktop on a Fedora 29 system. Any
> ideas on what's going on?
> Thanks
> Lars
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