From: Raphael Bauduin <raphael.bauduin@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T20:17:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-clipboard 0.1.0

Zachary P. Landau wrote:
>>I'm not sure how to stick something in the clipboard on the Linux
>>side, though... for now, might have to re-copy the text when it
>>appears.
> 
> 
> You probably want to check out a program like xclip
> (http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip). It allows you to put stuff into
> the clipboard and take stuff out of the clipboard from the command line.
> You can either use this directory, or just read the code to see how it
> is done.
> 

KDE specific, but as it was mentioned earlier in this thread:
you can use DCOP to interact with the clipboard:

https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/36/KDE_Scripting_DCOP.pdf

There is a perl example in the article, but I think stable ruby bindings are on 
their way.

Raph