[oclug]KDE/Gnome Clipboard communication

[Shad Young]

KDE also uses Klipper, which is a cut and past utility... ensure it is
installed and running in your system tray. It will cut and paste almost
everywhere, but be warned... Use "copy" <ctrl c> not "cut" <ctrl x> in gnome
or you end up with machine code output in KDE (at least in Mandrake 9.0).

Be warned, Netscape is non conformant!. In some Distros,
"cut/copy/paste/select" use <alt> and even worse, some like Mandrakes
version MIX them! So in Netscape select all and copy it is <alt>a <ctrl>c,
yet in every other app its <ctrl>a <ctrl>co.

GAEA

Anyway, good luck :)

Shad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilles J. Seguin" <segg at infonet.ca>
To: <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [oclug]KDE/Gnome Clipboard communication


> "Hugh Campbell, Finlayson & Singlehurst" wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone aware of an application that will allow cutting and pasting
between
> > Gnome and KDE apps?  Why can't a single clip board manager exist that
can
> > handle 'input' from both KDE and Gnome?
> >
> > I'm going to punch my screen soon if I can't start easily copying and
pasting.  Far
> > too often, I end up having to position windows just right so that I can
type in 100
> > character long URL's, all because I am using the wrong combo of apps.
That is
> > _really_ tedious.
>
> Can you confirm,
>
> $ xclipboard &
>
> - select application window
> - select object
> - drag mouse over text
> - click at beginning, follow by holding down shift key and
>   clicking at end position, which can be before or after
>   first position
> - activate copy to clipboard
>   This is usually, Ctrl+c ( Meta+c for Netscape)
>
> The selected text and afterward copy to clipboard
> must appear in the window of the xclipboard utility.
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