Chen Levy wrote: > Hi people. > > In KDE I can do: > #/bin/sh > dcop klipper klipper getClipboardContent | festival --tts > This get the current clipboard text selection and read it out loud. > > I know that GNOME uses D-BUS as DCOP TNG, but I was not able to grok how to > use it. I read somewhere that there is a small X utility that can output > the > clipboard contents to stdout but I can't remember it's name.
xclip does that: xclip -o | festival --tts You can also get the data from one of several selection buffers. Baruch ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
