Re: Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Gus <gusl@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

> you'll probably have to write a wrapper program that grabs the
> clipboard and passes it as an argument
> 
> this shouldn't be too hard - i'll leave it up to someone with some X
> experience to give you the code ;)

OK, here's something I prepared earlier, which should give you some
ideas.  I think I worked out how to do it by looking at xpaste or
something like it.

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#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
void main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    Display *display = XOpenDisplay("");
    char *string;
    int bytes;
    XConvertSelection(display, XA_PRIMARY, XA_STRING, XA_CUT_BUFFER0,
        XDefaultRootWindow(display), CurrentTime);
    string = XFetchBytes(display, &bytes);
    write(1, string, bytes);
    XFree(string);
    XCloseDisplay(display);
}
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If you compile this as xprtsel, for example, you could run:

    $ myprogram -clipboard "`xprtsel`"

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