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>	The mouse can be used to select (copy), and extend-select
	text, paste text from other terminals or applications, and
	bring up a menu.
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>Selection</A
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>          The following assumes a standard three-button mouse that
          has not been made left-handed via the control center. Left-handed 
          mice will of course work, but with the right button instead of
          the left one, and so on.
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>	  The left mouse button can be used to initiate a selection.
	  If the mouse button is clicked once, and dragged, then
	  characters are selected individually.  If you drag past the
	  vertical boundaries of the window it will scroll to keep
	  up.
	</P
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>	  If the left mouse button is double-clicked, then the
	  selection will be by word-characters.  Hold the mouse button
	  down on the second click to drag the mouse and enlarge the
	  selection.  The word-characters are defined in the
	  <TT
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><B
> General options</B
></TT
> tab of <A
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>Preferences dialogue</A
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>	  Finally, if the left mouse button is triple-clicked and
	  held, whole lines are selected as you drag the mouse up and
	  down.
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>	  The right mouse button can be used to extend the
	  selection.  Simply scroll to where you wish to extend the
	  selection to, and click the right mouse button in the
	  desired place.   Again, single, double and 
          triple clicks will result in by-character, by-word, or 
          by-line selection.
	</P
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>	  For all cases, releasing the mouse button automatically
	  copies the selected text into the clipboard, so that it may
	  be pasted to other applications.  Note that any screen
	  output will clear the highlighting of the selection, but it
	  will still be kept in the clipboard.
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>	  If the middle mouse button is pressed, then the current
	  selection is pasted into the window.  This can be used to
	  transfer text from other applications.
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>	  If you only have a two-button mouse, then your X server
	  probably has a method of emulating the middle mouse
	  button. The most common method is to emulate the middle
	  mouse button by simultaneous pressing of left and right
	  mouse buttons.  Refer to your X server documentation for
	  further information.
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>	  If you have a wheel mouse (which sends mouse button 4 and
	  mouse button 5 events), then you can use the wheel to scroll
	  up and down through the scrollback buffer.
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>Control Menu</A
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>	  The pointer can also be used to bring up a <A
HREF="menus.html#MENU-POPUP"
>control-menu</A
>, 
	  which can be used to reset the terminal or bring back the
	  main menu bar, if it has been hidden. To invoke this menu,
	  click anywhere in the terminal with the right mouse button
	  while holding down the <B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>CTRL</B
> key.
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>          Gnome terminal can be used to select URL's (Uniform Resource
          Locators; most commonly, Internet addresses, such as
          <TT
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>http://www.gnome.org</TT
>) from the text
          display, simply by moving the mouse over the URL text.  The
          URL will be highlighted, by being redrawn with an underline,
          and the mouse pointer will change to a pointing hand.
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>          Invoking the <A
HREF="menus.html#MENU-POPUP"
>control-menu</A
>
          while over a highlighted URL will add a new option to load
          that URL into a browser.
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>	  Pressing the left mouse button, while holding down the
	  <B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>CTRL</B
> 
	  key is a shortcut to launch the URL immediately.
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><A
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>Drag and Drop</A
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>	  Drag and drop can be used for a number of operations within
	  the terminal.
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>Dragging files</DT
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>If files are dragged into the terminal, then their
		full filename is pasted into the window.  URL's can also
		be dropped in this way.
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>Dragging colours</DT
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>		A colour can be dragged from another gnome
		application, or from the
		<A
HREF="menus.html#MENU-SETTINGS"
>colour selector</A
> into the
		display.  If it lands on a character, it sets the
		foreground colour, otherwise it sets the background
		colour.  Refer to the
		<A
HREF="config.html#CONFIG-COLOUR"
>colour
		configuration</A
> section. 
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