[accessiblelinux] possible gnome-terminal text selection work around
- From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Orca-list <orca-list@xxxxxxxxx>, Accessible Linux <accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:38:11 -0500
Hi,
For everyone having difficulties selecting text in the terminal, if you
are running Ubuntu the screen package is pre-installed. It may need to
be installed in other distros, I am not sure. Anyway, launch it by
typing screen in terminal. It will start and display a message. Press
enter then work in terminal as normal. When it comes time to copy text
press ctrl+a followed by escape. You can then move up using the arrow
keys to the beginning of the text you want to copy. Press the space bar
then move to the end of the text you want to copy and press space again.
The selection is coppied. It does not go to the X clipboard though. The
easiest way to get it there is by using a terminal based text editor.
Here's a brief example of pasting the text in a file called tmp.txt:
vi tmp.txt
press i
press ctrl+a followed by [
press escape
type :wq
Now the text you need is in the file tmp.txt you can open with Gedit,
select all, and copy to clipboard.
A small note for speakup users, screen is not limited to text on the
same screen when copying.
HTH
Storm
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