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Bug 97509 - Can't select text when text app uses mouse
Can't select text when text app uses mouse
Status: VERIFIED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Havoc Pennington
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-02 20:39 UTC by Robin Green
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Robin Green 2002-11-02 20:39:43 UTC 
I can't work out how to select text from a terminal program that uses the
mouse, like "links" (the web browser which can be optionally run in text mode).

I suggest a Select command on the Edit menu to temporarily redirect mouse
input to gnome-terminal for a single selection to be made, and then return
to sending mouse events to the app running in the terminal.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-02 20:51:26 UTC 
You hold down shift or control, I think.

text apps that use the mouse are such an inherently horrible UI idea 
that I don't think we should clutter the menu with stuff to accomodate
them.
Comment 2 Robin Green 2002-11-02 21:33:48 UTC 
Yeah, I just found out you use SHIFT to use the normal select
behaviour (happened to notice a tip on that while reading the pine
help pages). Verifying notabug.