Have a look at the XmeClipboardSource function inside Transfer.c in the
Motif source code on SourceForge.
It uses Atoms and XConvertSelection.
IIRC, this is the correct mechanism. I remember once using XInternAtom
on the root X11 windows for cross-program data sharing.
Steve
On 03/09/17 15:37, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 03/09/2017 10:18 AM, Stephen Isard wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 00:10:33 -0800, ToddAndMargo
<[email protected]> wrote:
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there are also more formal references like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/using-cut-buffers.html
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/selection.html
Sorry I pointed you in the wrong direction to start with.
Hi Andrew,
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/using-cut-buffers.html
is the ctrl-c/v/x clipboard.
But, looking at
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/selection.html
He talks a lot about changing the ownership. Is the the mouse over and
middle click clipboard (primary)? I may still have the wrong
clipboard.
Am I missing something?
Yes, mouse over and middle click is primary. xclip will let you
transfer text between
primary and clipboard.
For instance,
xclip -o -sel clip |xclip -sel p
will put the clipboard selection into the primary, from which you can
paste it with
the middle button, and
xclip -o -sel p |xclip -sel clip
will put the selection that you have highlighted with the mouse into
the clipboard,
from which you can ctrl-v it into an openoffice document or whatever.
Obviously, you want to give these incantations names or bind them to
keys if you
intend to use them a lot.
Hope that's useful.
Stephen Isard
Hi Stephen,
I am trying to write a module in Perl 6 to do it myself
without using xclip. I have the source code for xclip,
but I don't read C, so it is a hair puller.
What I really need is the right "man pages" for "clipboard"
and "primary", so I can write my own inline code. Andrew
has pointed me in the right direction.
One thing I did get from xclip's code is that he
is only checking the first letter of is command line
parameters.
-T
