> I'm an X dummy, so pardon me if I'm totally wrong about this or if it
> has nothing to do with FVWM.
It is more an Xwindows question, but I will put a fvwm specific bend on it :-)
> On all X systems I've seen so far, you can use the mouse to copy and
> paste text between windows (shells, netscape, mail, ...). What I'd
> like to know is whether it would be possible to get hold of the
> contents of that buffer (managed by the window manager???) from within
> a shell or perl script so I can feed it as an argument to various
> programs.
>
Yes you can ...
There is a program called xcb that can help you manage you cut buffer.
It can do a number of things including display all of the active cut
buffers in a window, as well as put things in the cut buffer, and spit the
output of the the cut buffer to stdout.
I added a patch that merges these two last into 1 execution, which copies
the currently highlighted text into the cut buffer, then spits it out to
stdout. (If you want that version please let me know, I will make the src
available). If you are using normal xcb, replace "xcb -P 0" with
"xcb -S 0; xcb -p 0".
I put the following line in my .fvwm2rc
Mouse 1 W M Exec netscape `xcb -P 0` &
Note that for me netscape is a perl program that will invoke netsape
optionally with the -remote openURL option. You can get similar
functionality (assuming netscape is already running) with the binding
Mouse 1 W M Exec url=`xcb -P 0` ; netscape -remote "openURL($url,new-window)" &
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Received on Thu Mar 20 1997 - 10:58:22 GMT