speakup and the mouse

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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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