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Re: alternative to xwinclip









Harold,


Thanks for your reply. I wasn't aware that there were any modifications of xwinclip. I will have a search for those, though Igor's suggestion about doing 'cat > /dev/null' to paste the shellscripts into an xterm works well. The issues I have been told are :

1. You can't copy directly from the X-application to Windows.
2. You can't copy at all from windows to the X-application (even using an x-term).
3. Sometimes the text selected doesn't all get copied to the clipboard.


By the way, I know xwinclip is opensource, I meant is there another opensource clipboard? I looked on sourceforge and freshmeat and found something called netclip, but development on that has now stopped, and I couldn't get it to work anyway.

As for the rewrite of xwinclip, I take it noone here is working on that at the moment? What sort of things would one need to know before embarking on that (a knowledge of C goes without saying) ?

JS.


JS,


I have talked many times about how xwinclip's functionality needs to be rewritten in order to work somewhat properly. Check the mailing list archives for details.

xwinclip is opensource. Not quite sure what you meant there.

Although, others have in the past released their own modifications to xwinclip, some of which have not been incorporated into xwinclip. You can search the mailing list archives for some of those versions and see if you find one that works better for you.

Harold

J S wrote:
Hi,

I was wondering if there is an opensource alternative to xwinclip?

We have one X application where for some reason, I can't copy text from(using -clipboard) directly to windows. Instead, I have to copy and paste to an xterm first, and then copy the same text again from that xterm, before being able to paste it into windows. Unfortunately this method doesn't always work because, if you try to copy a shellscript and paste that into an xterm, it then tries to run that script! The users here also report that sometimes the paste doesn't paste all the text that was copied.

I would really like to find a solution to this, as its blocking the use of XFree at my work. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

JS.




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