Comments on: Clipboard Manager http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2005/05/25/clipboard-manager/ Random stuff Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:17:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: liljencrantz http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2005/05/25/clipboard-manager/#comment-4 liljencrantz Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2005/05/25/clipboard-manager/#comment-4 I don't understand what the problem is with the current clipboard and console programs. Any program, including console based ones can just connect to the X server and use the clipboard. If the issue is dependance on X headers, you can just use an external application to do it for you. I have done just that in a shell I have written, called fish (<a href="http://roo.no-ip.org/fish">http://roo.no-ip.org/fish</a>). Using ^K and ^Y moves text to the clipboard and pastes from the clipboard. This is done by calling an external application called xsel (Not written by me), which is a commandline based clipboard manipulation tool. <p/>I pointed this out on the xdg mailing list when this exact conversation was started by Phillip about a month ago, but everyone was to busy solving the problem to notice that it never existed in the first place.<p/> I don’t understand what the problem is with the current clipboard and console programs. Any program, including console based ones can just connect to the X server and use the clipboard. If the issue is dependance on X headers, you can just use an external application to do it for you. I have done just that in a shell I have written, called fish (http://roo.no-ip.org/fish). Using ^K and ^Y moves text to the clipboard and pastes from the clipboard. This is done by calling an external application called xsel (Not written by me), which is a commandline based clipboard manipulation tool.

I pointed this out on the xdg mailing list when this exact conversation was started by Phillip about a month ago, but everyone was to busy solving the problem to notice that it never existed in the first place.

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