On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> writes:
clipboard management.
wmcliphist. aw, no longer in debian. I swear, software never improves. I'm going back to the abacus.
There's a bunch of stand-alone clipboard managers in apt, because the gnome one is built into gnome-settings-daemon, so you can't have it without pulling in a lot of other shit you don't want (e.g. last time I used it, g-s-d would turn off your .xmodmap and .gtkrc-2.0 and use its own versions from %gconf-tree.xml).
Heh, I just disabled g-s-d the other day after upgrading to wheezy and discovering that it and dconf have now taken over the screensaver despite xscreensaver running. As is standard practice with all things gnome, there's no documentation of how to disable this. Ideally I'd be able to give it a whitelist of things it is allowed to touch rather than work out what it has stolen and blacklist if possible.
I can't vouch for any of them. If I need to copy something into webkit, I write it to /tmp/x then browse to file:///tmp/x and copy from within the browser. (I don't need to do it much.)
cat bin/mozclip.sh # which is bound to Alt-F1-e in fvwm #!/bin/bash
# This program takes the X clipboard buffer, and runs mozilla with the URL in the clipboard. # For use when the browser of choice doesn't for example support flash, and you want mozilla # to display it URL=`xcb -S 0 ; xcb -p 0` # store into primary, then print. Not &&, because sometimes the store fails, but the primary still contains a useful selection reset_type # xcb stores UTF8_STRING. This breaks emacs: bug #649837 Reset the cut buffer to STRING, which of course nulls out the contents of the buffer, but that's fine, because we have already copied it. echo "$URL" | cat2linesurl.sh # takes any number of lines, strips leading and trailing whitespace and fires off a $BROWSER
cat reset_type.c: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <X11/Xatom.h> int main() { Display *dpy; Window window; int i; unsigned char *data = ""; dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL); window = RootWindow(dpy, 0); for (i = 9; i < 17; i++) { printf("i = %d\n", i); XChangeProperty(dpy, window, (Atom)i, XA_STRING, 8, PropModeReplace, data, 0); } XFlush(dpy);
exit(0); } -- Tim Connors