Here's a workaround for firefox:
sudo apt-get install xclip
Edit /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox.sh (or equivalent)
Put this line after #!/bin/sh :
python /home/$USER/clipwrap.py &
# Save this (for example) to /home/$USER/clipwrap.py
#Copy from the clipboard:
import os
import time
s = ''
while True:
curs = os.popen('xclip -selection c -o').read()
if len(curs)>0:
s=curs
else:
wcl = os.popen('ps ax|grep firefox|grep -v grep|wc -l').read()
if wcl[0]=='0':
break
time.sleep(.15)
os.popen('echo \"%s\" | xclip -selection c' % s)
#EOF
#Limitations are that it only works with firefox, and if anything else
in ps ax matches firefox, it won't detect when firefox ends. Yeah, this
could be better, but it's a proof of concept right now. This wrapper
also only starts if something is on the clipboard to begin with. And
you can adjust the sleep. Right now it wakes up every 150ms. That's bad
for laptops or low-power machines. This needs to be fixed higher up on
the "source chain". I'll try to make a better workaround too.
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