From: "Zachary P. Landau" <kapheine@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T09:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-clipboard 0.1.0

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> >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=
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> >are on their way.
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> It would be really nice if there was a common mechanism used by all X11=
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> desktops for this kind of generic stuff, rather than each having their ow=
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> :-(.
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> I don't suppose there's some way we can get to a lower level API, and avo=
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> being KDE (or Gnome or ...) specific. Does anyone have any ideas on wheth=
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> that's feasible?

There mostly is. The problem is not every piece of software follows it
exactly. Check out
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt for an
explanation of how the clipboard is SUPPOSED to be implemented. I think
most software does follow this, however.

That xclip program I posted seems to follow these standards. Also, the
code is split up into a library and a command-line program, so it
probably wouldn't be particularly difficult to create ruby bindings for
it. The xclip link was http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/ for those
who missed it.

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