[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de writes: Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, without going to the mouse. I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this. Can I just steal whatever events happen when middle click on three button mouse and put them into a keyboard shortcut? How might I do that? Pasting into an xterm or one of its clones can be done by Shift+Ins. Haa... yes nice... How about a way to activate a hyperlink from keyboard? I have a list of videos that are displayed as hyperlinks on a web page. Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks... I thought either spc or enter but neither of those activate the links. Also tried quite a few other keyboard combos, but never did find one that activates a hyperlink like a mouse click does. Thanks for the paste combo!
[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: [...] Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's enter once you have the link selected. At least, that works on firefox and seamonkey. I seem to remember the same holds true for konqueror, not sure. I thought either spc or enter but neither of those activate the links. Also tried quite a few other keyboard combos, but never did find one that activates a hyperlink like a mouse click does. If that doesn't work, then let us know which browser do you use. Yes sorry. I use firefox-3.5.1 and I also thought enter should activate a hperlink. I use Xfce4 desktop and and the default/linux/x86/2008.0 profile I did look at the keyboard shortcuts listed in firefox help file but none of them appears to be for activating a hyperlink. If your enter key activates hyperlinks, please try some of the links here: http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=391 And let me know if it works there for you.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste
On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:20, Harry Putnam wrote: Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de writes: Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, without going to the mouse. I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this. Can I just steal whatever events happen when middle click on three button mouse and put them into a keyboard shortcut? How might I do that? Pasting into an xterm or one of its clones can be done by Shift+Ins. Haa... yes nice... How about a way to activate a hyperlink from keyboard? I have a list of videos that are displayed as hyperlinks on a web page. Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's enter once you have the link selected. At least, that works on firefox and seamonkey. I seem to remember the same holds true for konqueror, not sure. I thought either spc or enter but neither of those activate the links. Also tried quite a few other keyboard combos, but never did find one that activates a hyperlink like a mouse click does. If that doesn't work, then let us know which browser do you use. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste
On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:52, Harry Putnam wrote: Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: [...] Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's enter once you have the link selected. At least, that works on firefox and seamonkey. I seem to remember the same holds true for konqueror, not sure. I thought either spc or enter but neither of those activate the links. Also tried quite a few other keyboard combos, but never did find one that activates a hyperlink like a mouse click does. If that doesn't work, then let us know which browser do you use. Yes sorry. I use firefox-3.5.1 and I also thought enter should activate a hperlink. I don't know what your problem might be then. If you select a link with tab, just pressing enter should be enough to open it. An alternate method is to directly type part of the link, firefox will select matches (you don't have to press any key combo to open the search box or anything, it's automatic as you start typing). Once you have typed enough characters and the selection is -hopefully- over the link, just press enter. This method can be a bit tricky sometimes. You might need to click the background on the area containing the links or tab somewhere near the link to be able to use it. Yet a third method would be to use the search feature. Control+f, then type part of the name, once the link is -partly- selected, press ESC (important, to close the search bar) then enter to activate the selected link. If your enter key activates hyperlinks, please try some of the links here: http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=391 As far as I can tell, they work fine in both firefox and seamonkey. -- Jesús Guerrero
[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:52, Harry Putnam wrote: Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: [...] Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's enter once you have the link selected. At least, that works on firefox and seamonkey. I seem to remember the same holds true for konqueror, not sure. I thought either spc or enter but neither of those activate the links. Also tried quite a few other keyboard combos, but never did find one that activates a hyperlink like a mouse click does. If that doesn't work, then let us know which browser do you use. Yes sorry. I use firefox-3.5.1 and I also thought enter should activate a hperlink. I don't know what your problem might be then. If you select a link with tab, just pressing enter should be enough to open it. An alternate method is to directly type part of the link, firefox will select matches (you don't have to press any key combo to open the search box or anything, it's automatic as you start typing). Once you have typed enough characters and the selection is -hopefully- over the link, just press enter. This method can be a bit tricky sometimes. You might need to click the background on the area containing the links or tab somewhere near the link to be able to use it. Yet a third method would be to use the search feature. Control+f, then type part of the name, once the link is -partly- selected, press ESC (important, to close the search bar) then enter to activate the selected link. If your enter key activates hyperlinks, please try some of the links here: http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=391 As far as I can tell, they work fine in both firefox and seamonkey. This is beginning to seem very strange... My firefox browser follows all the things you laid out above on any other site. It has to be something to do with me being logged into that account. Logging out doesn't change it either... what happens is the first keystroke I do after arriving at the home page, causes me to be logged in again and then the links will not activate with enter It has to be something done with javascript to intercept the event of pressing enter and disabling or redirecting it. There are dozens of routines in javascript and AJAX that intercept keyboard and mouse events... and use them to display something helpful like a preview of the page the hyperlink leads to or that sort of thing. So I'm guessing its either being done purposely for some reason or is a side effect of some other javascript code. Thanks for the time and help.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste
It has to be something done with javascript to intercept the event of pressing enter and disabling or redirecting it. There are dozens of routines in javascript and AJAX that intercept keyboard and mouse events... and use them to display something helpful like a preview of the page the hyperlink leads to or that sort of thing. So I'm guessing its either being done purposely for some reason or is a side effect of some other javascript code. That would make sense. Firefox has no easy way to handle that, other than disabling javascript of course, which would pretty much kill the site if it relies too heavily on javascript. Thanks for the time and help. You are welcome. -- Jesús Guerrero
