Anyone know how to work with the LINUX clipboard? Where can I look for help? Shane
Hongli Lai wroteIn Linux, the clipboard doesn't exists.
But it exists in X, surely?
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Anyone know how to work with the LINUX clipboard? Where can I look for help? Shane
Op Fri, 11 Aug 2000, schreef Shane Miller:
Anyone know how to work with the LINUX clipboard? Where can I look for help?
In Linux, the clipboard doesn't exists.
In console mode, the gpm daemon is used for mouse functions and copy/paste (but you can't tell gpm to copy a text to it's buffer AFAIK). In X, "selections" are used in the same way the clipboard is used in Windows. More about selections using GTK+:
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-19.html
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gdk/gdk-selections.html http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gdk/gdk-properties-and-atoms.html
Anyone know how to work with the LINUX clipboard? Where can I look for help?
Shane