Re: Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

1999-05-23 Thread Carey Evans
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 s

Re: Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

1999-05-17 Thread Gus
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Matthias Kabel wrote: > Is there a way for all windowmanager to get the content of > the X-clipboard? 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

Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

1999-05-17 Thread Matthias Kabel
Hello, I'm packaging a dictionary with a little shellscript to lookup the words. It is possible to invoke this script with the X-clipboard as an argument. It will spawn an xmessages window with all translations in the dictionary. So I have to use a variable with the content of the X-clipboard. I