gnome-clipboard-daemon

[Carl Karsten]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Carl Karsten schrieb:
>> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>> Carl Karsten schrieb:
>>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/67795/
>>>> "GnomeDesktop.org mentions the GNOME Clipboard Daemon as a solution 
>>>> to some of the problems with cut and paste operations under the X 
>>>> window system. "
>>>>
>>>> Where can I get it?
>>>
>>> Isn't that integrated in Gnome? I mean, I can easily select a text
>>> in GEdit, hit <ctrl>+<c> to *copy* it to the clipboard and then close
>>> GEdit. The text will still be there - on systems without Gnome/KDE/...,
>>> <ctrl>+<c> wouldn't do anything and if the application were closed which
>>> had the selected text, it wouldn't be pasteable in another application.
>>>
>>
>> What I am really trying to do is get text from stdout into an email 
>> (like this one) using something like xclip.
> 
> Ah! See, it always helps to describe your problem :)
> 
> To do something like this, I sometimes use xsel from
> <http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/>, which you can find
> in Universe.

At least on my test box, xsel doesn't seem to use the same clipboard that gedit 
uses, which I am guessing means it won't help me get text into Thunderbird or 
Open Office.

> 
>>   seems xclip uses one clipboard, and Thunderbird (and OOWriter) uses 
>> another.
> 
> I don't know xclip.

looks like the same thing as xsel.

> 
>> you can also see this with gnome-terminal, vi - Shift+Insert and right 
>> click + paste have different clipboards.
> 
> Depends on what you do. In gnome-terminal, when I *select* a text and then
> hit <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<c> (or Edit -> Copy), I can then <shift>+<insert>
> the text in gvim. In vim under Gnome Terminal, <shift>+<insert> doesn't
> do anything for me - maybe, because I disabled the key shortcuts.

where/how did you disable them?

C