short-keys for pasting different texts

Olafur Arason olafra at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 09:34:36 UTC 2006


It works if you specify in gedit to save the textfile as ISO-8859-15, i think
xsel doesn't have unicode support.

Olafur Arason

On 2/11/06, René <list.account at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Am 11.02.2006, 15:08 Uhr, schrieb Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com>:
> > Install xsel ( sudo apt-get install xsel )
> > run gedit script1.sh
> > add to it:
> > echo "Text" | xsel -i -b
> >
> > or if you have a textfile
> > xsel -i -b < /home/user/textfile
> >
> > run gconf-editor
> > go to apps -> metacirty -> keyboard_commands
> > and add the location to your script like /home/user/script1.sh
> > to command_1 and so on
> > then in apps -> metacity -> global_keybindings
> > and add your keybinding to run_command_1 and so on
> >
> > Then try it, it will load the text to the clipboard then you can just
> > paste
>
> good. very gooood!
> as i am writing usually in german, i face a difficulty with signs like
> äöüé and so on.
> how to manage that, Olafur?
>
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