On 02/17/2017 06:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
1) Is there a reliably Perl 6 way to copy things to the
clipboard? (Perl 5 has a module, but it is unreliable
and I have to make a system call.)
In Linux, OS::Clipboard is using xclip and is writing to the
"mouse over" and "center click" clipboard, not the ctrl-c/v
clipboard. I wrote him about the issue over on
https://github.com/kmwallio/p6-OS-Clipboard/issues/1
A quick tutorial on xclip that I wrote myself for the do-it-
your-selfers:
xclip Reference:
https://sourceforge.net/p/xclip/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/xclip.c
to write to the secondary clipboard (<ctrl><c>)
echo abc | xclip -selection clipboard
to read from the secondary clipboard (<ctrl><v>)
xclip -selection clipboard -o
to write from the primary clipboard (mouse over)
echo xyz | xclip -selection primary -o
to read from the primary clipboard (center click)
xclip -selection primary -o
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