Shortcuts for copying and pasting text
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Revision 0.2 | 26th November 2007 | Revised by Chris Lale | ||||||||||
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Abstract It is possible to copy and paste text between X applications and console applications running in a terminal window. There are both keyboard and mouse methods.
1 IntroductionIf you are using Gnome or KDE or a modern window manager, you can cut, copy or paste text without using an application's built-in Edit menu. In fact, you can copy and paste text within a terminal window and between a terminal window and GUI applications. This can be useful for copying commandline output to a text editor, or for copying and pasting within a console application such as Nano. The keyboard shortcuts can be freely mixed. In other words, you can use any method to copy followed by any method to paste. However, the mouse shortcut is best not mixed with the keyboard shortcuts. 2 Keyboard shortcuts within GUI applications
3 Keyboard shortcuts within a terminal window
4 Mouse shortcuts for GUI applications and terminal windows
5 Appendix A: LicenceCopyright (c) 2006-2007 Chris Lale. chrislale AT users DOT berlios DOT de.
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