I have not managed to get my pbcopy/pbpaste to work in Screen as discussed here.
I aim to solve the problem by having Screen clipboard inside Firefox.
Its paste works in terminal by the following command but not in Firefox
C-a ]
How can you use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox?
Here's a solution that makes use of screen's buffer-writing commands and pbcopy:
Copying the GNU screen buffer to the Leopard clipboard
Screen's clipboard (correctly called a paste buffer) only works inside that instance of screen. That's all it's designed to do.
The best way to copy-n-paste to FireFox is to use your terminal program's copy mechanism.
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I am trying to open an image with the terminal and set the image viewer to fullscreen and diaporama mode.
I am currently using xdg-open which allow me to open the image but the window is not in fullscreen mode. I tried force the fullscreen mode using F11 and F5 for diaporama mode but I am working on a computer that doesn't allow the installation of external tools.
Is there a way to force the fullscreen and diaporama mode without external tools ?
Thanks.
What does it mean external tools ? If you can select a different image viewer, which you can setup to start full screen, then xdg-open will use it.
Alternatively you can try something like feh instead of xdg-open, feh reads the fehrc file where you can define the starting options.
You can try to use gnome-open to open your file. It also has full screen mode(F11) and slideshow mode.
'eog'(Eye of GNOME) is also a good option.
In Ubuntu you can use the image viewer that comes by default with it, using the command:
$ eog my_pic.jpg
And that's it, if you do not have that image viewer then you can just download whatever you like and open it from the terminal in the same way. To exit you can close the opened window or by typing ctrl + c in your terminal to close the process.
Easy way!
$gio open simpleImageFile.png
I often have a need to grab a screen shot of something on my screen (Since I am using OSX, I use the Command+Control+Shift+4 combination, which puts the screenshot into the clipboard). This works well, and allows me to paste into MS Word and other programs.
At some point I had an issue pasting into MS One Note (still on OSX), (I was not able to, when doing Command+V, nothing would paste), which I was able to solve researching online, by changing the default image type for screenshots (I think it was from JPG to PNG, using a command in the OSX terminal).
While this worked for MS One Note, it never helped with pasting into Gmail in Safari (note that I have no issues doing this in Google Chrome).
Can anyone help with how to get pasting images from the clipboard into Gmail when using the Safari Browser? (note I am using the latest OSX and Safari versions available).
Thanks!
I have never tried using the Command+Control+Shift+4 combination but this is what I usually use and it works perfectly for me.
Task 1;
to copy the screen capture to the clipboard so you can use Command+V to paste in any program of your choice
Open your terminal
Type this "screencapture -c" in the terminal without the quotes e.g.: screencapture -c
open any program of your choice and press Command+V to paste.
Task 2;
To screen capture your computer screen and save the file directly to a png or jpg and later insert or attach it to any program of your choice
Open your terminal
type this "screencapture ./Location/filename.ext" in the terminal without the quotes e.g.: screencapture ./Desktop/myCapture.jpg This will save the capture file on the desktop with the jpg format.
to get more information about the command, type "screencapture --h" in your terminal without the quotes.
I have heard that it is possible to get a bitmap/image handle of the webpage being viewed on a firefox browser. I have been researching for a bit and couldn't not find anything.
So I am hoping if anyone knows how to do this, preferable via the command line (bash, any other shell on Linux).
To be honest, any browser that I could do this on is fine as long as its simple and on the shell!
Thanks all
Just one option: ImageMagick has an import command that will take a screenshot of any (X server) window from the command line. If you don't want the entire window you can specify a cropping area.
I've been googling around trying to figure out if it's possible to use my mouse wheel to scroll while inside Vim in Mac's Terminal, with no luck. It seems as if only X11 or iTerm support this.
Before I give up, I thought I'd try the geniuses here to see if anyone knows a way to do this. So, does anyone know if I can set that up?
Or should I seriously consider using a different terminal application?
And if you're using iTerm, add this to your vimrc
:set mouse=a
http://bitheap.org/mouseterm/
Use MouseTerm (and do make sure to install SIMBL first!) and scrolling will work like a charm, even remote, using Mac Terminal.
You need to fully quit the Terminal application (Command+Q) and then launch it again after installing MouseTerm.
This is an old question, but a top hit on google, so I feel compelled to provide an updated answer.
Running OSX El Capitan 10.11, vim mouse and trackpad scrolling just worked(TM) for me in Terminal.app by default. However occasionally the mouse/trackpad input stopped manipulating the vim buffer, and started scrolling the terminal buffer. The answer was Command+R or Menu View --> Allow Mouse Reporting. Turning that on allowed the mouse/trackpad scroll operations to move the cursor in vim.
Termanal Menu > View > Allow Mouse Reporting
Terminal Menu > Preferences >
Keyboard > Scroll alternate screen
If the mouse functionalities still do not work properly take a look at my answer in this post How to let vim behave on Mac OS X as on Ubuntu?, just add to your .vimrc
set ttymouse=xterm2
You can read this article, but I'm pretty sure since the default terminal in Mac OS X has a built-in scrollbar, the mousewheel commands automatically go to it. You could definitely use gVim as suggested in the previous answer. I find that I don't generally want to use the mouse in Vim though as it takes my hands off the keyboard.
I just use 50j to go down and 50k to go up. Not exactly scrolling, but it works pretty well.
Make sure the terminal is xterm & not ansi in Terminal Menu > Preferences > Profiles > Advanced. I accidentally broke scrolling by changing the term type in a naive effort to get coloring to work over ssh.
Use gVim, which gives you a text editing environment in a window you can scroll. Terminal is not involved when using gVim.
I'm using xterm in X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4) and vim works very fine with mouse and also suport 256 colors.
Here is the ~/.Xresources I use to make my xterm nicer in X11:
XTerm*faceName: Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular
XTerm*faceSize: 9
XTerm*utf8: 1
xterm*saveLines: 1000
xterm*jumpScroll: true
!xterm*awaitInput: true
!xterm*multiScroll: true
XTerm*scrollBar: false
xterm*scrollbar*thickness: 16
xterm*rightScrollBar: true
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*background: grey10
!XTerm*background: black
XTerm*cursorColor: yellow
xterm*visualBell: false
xterm*loginShell: true
Little tips, to remove the bell sound in X11's xterm type this command:
xset b 0
I would recommend using iTerm - it has so many advantages over Terminal eg Mouse support, 256 colors, sensible copy and paste (auto-copy, word/url selection with double click, middle click paste)...
When using iTerm create a .vimrc file (if not already there) in your home folder and add the line:
:set mouse=a
Scrolling down in vim to view a file works after this.
The post summarizes problems in using Screen in Mac's terminal when you have the following in your .zshrc
if [[ $STY = '' ]] then screen -xR; fi
Solution #1 is not working but Solution #2 works: Clipboard programs: pbcopy, pbpaste and xsel do not work at all
Bug in Vim when used in Mac: Unable to have no scattered windows in Screen by .Xresources.
Solved: Ctrl A stops working in terminal. This suggests me that Screen's keyboard bindings need to be changed slightly.
Solved: The scrolling with touchpad does not work. By editing your .screenrc the scrollback works normally (including touchpad)
Solved: Unable to have Dvorak keybindings for Screen for moving in Scrollback mod.
How can you use pbcopy/pbpaste/xsel inside Screen?
In screenrc:
# Make xterm scrolling work properly with screen.
termcapinfo xterm-256color|xterm-color|xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti#:te#
Works for Terminal.app too.
I usually solve the ctrl-a problem by setting my escape character to ctrl-z (which you generally don't need to use as often when you're running screen, since instead of backgrounding a process, you can just start up a new screen). In my .screenrc:
escape ^Zz
Scrolling using the touchpad just isn't going to work; screen is acting as a terminal emulator inside a terminal emulator, and it's just not possible for screen to switch the scrollback buffer in Terminal.app whenever you switch between screens. You're going to have to use screen's scrollback features. See this article for some tips on using screen's scrollback features.
The default OS X Terminal app is weak. Get iTerm instead:
iTerm
If I'm not mistaken, iTerm solves all of these out of the box (my install is a couple years old, so I can't test that theory now).
Problem #3 might be solvable if you enable the alternate screen buffer. Use altscreen on in .screenrc
Solution #1 which does not work
To be able to copy/paste in OSX put the following to your .screenrc
bind b eval "writebuf" "exec sh -c 'pbcopy < /tmp/screen-exchange'"
> Th[e] line - - sends that file to pbcopy - -.
The command is bound to C-a b (in my case, C-z b).
Solution #2 which works but is rather slow to type
Use Scrollback mode i.e. copy mode by
Coping
C-A [
Pasting
C-A ]
The solution is great, since it is the same in all terminal apps. It is similar to the clipboard as you use with your mouse.
Q5: Impossible: The scrolling with
touchpad does not work.
You can use ^A Esc to scroll up the screen. You cannot use Touchpad in Screen.
This solves the scrollback issue, although it is somewhat broken in that it isn't aware of screen's buffers.
env TERM=vt100 screen