From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Using the Clipboard in Linux
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:55:19 +0200
Date: 2009-11-08T21:55:19+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091108215519.0a206ba2.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uy6mhpcma.fsf@stephe-leake.org
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:52:29 -0500 Stephen Leake wrote:
> Alex <false_email@dontwantspam.com> writes:
>
> > I've written an application in windows that involves writing to the
> > clipboard. I'm trying to write a version to work in Linux (Ubuntu 9.04 is
> > what I'm developing on) and am struggling to get started with Florist.
>
> Linux the operating system kernel doesn't have a clipboard.
>
> X Windows does, and particular window managers may have other
> variations on it.
>
> So you need to look in X Windows documentation, not Linux documentation.
Probably the easiest way is to use GtkAda and its clipboard methods:
http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gtkada-docs/gtkada_rm/gtkada_rm/gtk-clipboard.html
And please note that X Window System (which GtkAda uses) has two different
clipboards, PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD. (This mostly matters if you need to
communicate between two different programs via clipboard.)
--
Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-07 20:48 Using the Clipboard in Linux Alex
2009-11-08 9:52 ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-08 19:55 ` Tero Koskinen [this message]
2009-11-09 21:09 ` Alex
2009-11-10 8:00 ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-10 21:16 ` Alex
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