On 2006-08-15, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd like to program my Python script to put a string into the >> X windows cut buffer. Can anyone suggest the simplest way to >> do that? > > There isn't a simple way to do that.
I forgot to mention, there are actually three different selections (plus the cut buffers). Here's a nice explanation of just the selection part of the mess: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/docs/xwindows/selection.pdf If you want something quick and dirty, you can just use os.popen() to call xsel: http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~vherva/xsel/ xsel doesn't do the "cut buffer" thing. It obtains ownership of the selection, and then forks off a copy of itself to service requests for the selection contents. I would probably have just copied the selection to cut buffer 0 and exited, but this way works fine. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I will SHAVE and at buy JELL-O and bring my visi.com MARRIAGE MANUAL!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
