Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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