[ALUG] Real Player

Bev Nicolson bnicolson at operamail.com
Sat Jul 28 15:47:29 BST 2007


I think I get it now (mostly) but do I save it on the desktop or open another tab in Firefox? And what does the realplayer command in terminal do? It didn't seem to recognise it... [puzzled look goes here]
Bev.

 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett Parker" <iDunno at sommitrealweird.co.uk>
> To: main at lists.alug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [ALUG] Real Player
> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:44:27 +0100
> "Brett Parker" <iDunno at sommitrealweird.co.uk>
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:38:22AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 July 2007 23:18:46 Ted Harding wrote:
> 
> <snippity class="boringDistinctionBetweenXTermAndTerminalEmulators"/>
> 
> > >
> > > As to "middle click" etc. Again, I'm not sure about how things
> > > are arranged in Ubuntu, but in standard X-windows usage you
> > > can use your three mouse-buttons[**] as follows:
> >
> > And, unless I'm missing something really clever, this seems like 
> > a very protracted discussion of copy-and-paste? Surely when you 
> > select "Copy link location" in Firefox it just puts the link into 
> > your desktop environment's clipboard? And then you can just paste 
> > it into your terminal emulator? Or does xterm not play nicely 
> > with DE clipboards?
> 
> I was, a standard X11 version of copy and paste (the X11 clipboard only
> handles text - err, by default ;) - Copy link location puts the text in
> to the X11 clipboard *as well as* the desktop environment clipboard.
> 
> With Gnome terminal you can right click and use "paste" to get stuff out
> of the clipboard. Alternatively, Shift-Insert will also paste the
> content of the X11 clipboard...
> 
> For those without 3 button mice (no scroll wheel?! the wheel is a
> button...) then (usually) 3 button emulation is turned on and so
> clicking both the left and right buttons at the same time will do the
> job.
> 
> Hope that clears a few things up,
> --
> Brett Parker
> 
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