Working with the Contents of Terminal Windows To scroll through previous commands and output:

Perform one of the following actions:

Use the scrollbar, which is usually displayed on the right of the terminal window.

Press the ShiftPage Up, ShiftPage Down, ShiftHome, or ShiftEnd keys.

The number of lines that you can scroll back to in the terminal window is determined by the Scrollback setting in the Scrolling tabbed section of the Editing Profile dialog. You can also scroll up or down one line at a time by pressing ControlShiftUp or ControlShiftDown.

To select and copy text:

You can select text in any of the following ways:

To select a character at a time, click on the first character that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last character that you want to select.

To select a word at a time, double-click on the first word that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last word that you want to select. Symbols are selected individually.

To select a line at a time, triple-click on the first line that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last line that you want to select.

These actions select all text between the first and last items. For all text selections, MATE Terminal copies the selected text into the clipboard when you release the mouse button. To explicitly copy the selected text, choose EditCopy.

 To paste text into a terminal:

If you previously copied text to the clipboard, you can paste the text into a terminal by performing one of the following actions:

To paste text that you copied by selection only, middle-click at the command prompt. If you do not have a middle mouse button, refer to the X Server documentation for information about how to emulate the middle mouse button.

To paste text that you explicitly copied, choose EditPaste.

To drag a file name into a terminal window:

You can drag a file name to a terminal from another application such as a file manager. The terminal displays the path and the full name of the file.

To access a link:

To access a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is displayed in a terminal, perform the following steps:

Move the mouse over the URL until the URL is underlined. Right-click on the URL to open a popup menu. Choose Open Link to start a link application and display the file located at the URL.