From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: speakup and the mouse
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:55:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020918125511.GA10914@potpal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209170624180.520-100000@hudson.valstar.net>
Hi. also, if you press the left mouse button you will replace the
contents of the speakup buffer with the character under the mouse.
Kenny
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:31:52AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Here is an interesting and unexpected fact that is close to
> useless for most of us, but very informative.
>
> I can use the speakup cut and paste feature to "mark" and "cut" a
> section of the screen display, and then "paste" that text by
> pressing my right mouse button. How about that?
>
> Why, you ask, am I using a mouse? Some weeks ago I configured X
> on my system (without any access tools (yet)) and during that
> process I installed GPM, the General Purpose Mouse driver, to
> check it for compatibility with various window managers etcetera.
> Frankly I forgot it was installed, and recently quite by accident
> while tidyhing up my desk I hit the right mouse button, which
> normally inserts captured text at the cursor, and lo and behold
> the most recent text captured by speakup was inserted. I have
> checked it several times and it works reliably.
>
> I assume what that means is that speakup and GPM share a capture
> buffer, which makes a lot of sense.
>
> Chuck
>
>
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