[ale] Clipboard question

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 19:01:44 EDT 2005


Here is a way to do it with the KDE utility:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9047

The Gnome one is gnome-clipboard-daemon but I don't know if it will do
the same thing. I am not using either of them myself.


On 10/19/05, Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:39:19PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > Depends on what clipboard you want to copy it to. KDE and Gnome both
> > provide utilities to write to the clipboard.
>
> Well, ideally I would like to use the X cut buffer.  I don't use either
> KDE or Gnome, but I have the libraries for each installed.  What are the
> utilities?
>
> My goal in this is to paste the contents of a text file into a text area
> in a browser.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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