Clipboard program for Ubuntu/Gnome?

[Andy]

On 4/20/05, bjunix <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> thx a lot... i also use klipper now...
> 
> nevertheless it s a shame that there is no gnome equivalent to klipper.
> i hope gnome devs will think about this in future releases. we have fish
> tanks and stock exchange tickers in the panal but no clipboard
> manager?!
> 
> it s kind of a "dirty hack" to use kde libs with gnome in my opinion ;)
> 
> --
> bjunix
> 

I agree with you on that one.  I did think about this though.  One of
the reasons I REALLY like XFCE is that it's panel has just the
clipboard functionality everyone is looking for.  In fact, I've been
leaning toward running nautilus in XFCE because of the clipboard
functionality....or running the XFCE panel instead of the default
gnome panel, etc.

My question is:  Is there anyway to run the clipboard daemon provided
by xfce in gnome?  I'm pretty sure XFCE is freedesktop.org compliant,
but I'm not sure how to add this as an option for the gnome panel.  I
looked at the files provided by XFCE, and here's what I found.

/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins
/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libclipman.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-clipman-plugin
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-clipman-plugin/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-clipman-plugin/copyright
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-clipman-plugin/changelog.Debian.gz

The package is called xfce4-clipman-plugin.  It's not quite as good as
lipper IMHO, but it's a damn site better than anything else I've seen
in the gtk-gnome world.

--andy

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