Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Monday 21 September 2009 14:32:06 Wayne Topa wrote:Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:On Monday 21 September 2009 12:06:39 Mike McClain wrote:[H]ow can I grab some text on the command line and paste it in X, or vise versa?I believe xclip <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip/> can do this. <http://elcasey.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/xclip-use-the-clipboard-from-the - command-line/>xclip in Squeeze seems to work from the CLI to X, not vice-versa.Tried "xclip -o", I presume?
Yes, and that didn't get me anywhere either. Actually it didn't go from CLI to X here either. I gave up on xclip when I ran the example from the man page $ xclip -loops 10 -verbose /etc/motd Loops: 10 Connected to X server. Using UTF8_STRING. Reading /etc/motd... Waiting for 10 selection requests, Control-C to quit Waiting for selection request 1 of 10. I went for a cup of coffee and 10 minutes later it was still sitting there. I then ran xclipboard and tried the above again. Nothing showed up on the xclipboard or on the CLI. Same results with the other examples. When they didn't work I purged it . I've too many other things to do to play with it anymore. Wayne