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 <shift><tab> 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


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