Re: Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

2006-09-05 Thread David Hirschfield
Ah, indeed it does...my distro didn't have it, but a quick download and compile and there it is. Thanks a bunch, -Dave Keith Dart wrote: On 9/5/06, David Hirschfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is good info...but I'm looking for the opposite direction: I want to place so

Re: Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

2006-09-05 Thread David Hirschfield
This is good info...but I'm looking for the opposite direction: I want to place some arbitrary command output text into the clipboard, not get the current selection out of the clipboard. Any help on that end? -Dave kdart wrote: David Hirschfield wrote: Strange request, but is the

Re: Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

2006-09-05 Thread kdart
David Hirschfield wrote: > Strange request, but is there any way to get text into the linux > copy-paste buffer from a python script ? > > I know the standard python libraries won't have that functionality > (except as a side-effect, perhaps?), but is there a simple trick that > would do it on lin

Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

2006-09-05 Thread David Hirschfield
Strange request, but is there any way to get text into the linux copy-paste buffer from a python script ? I know the standard python libraries won't have that functionality (except as a side-effect, perhaps?), but is there a simple trick that would do it on linux? A command line to get text int