On do, 2003-02-06 at 15:40, 汤诗语 wrote: > In MS Windows, Control-C and Control-V keys are often used for data > transfer among applications, while in X Window system, the operation of > data transfer is by middle button,i.e. X selection. Some recent > libraries and applications uses both X selection and clipboard, but they > are limited to X data transfer framework. Some large projects such as > mozilla <http://www.mozilla.org/> and openoffice > <http://www.openoffice.org/> has internal data transfer framework, but > the clipboard part cannot be easily used by other applicatioins.
AFAIK this problem does not exist anymore for applications adhering to the freedesktop.org standard: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt > gclipboard provides a cross-application data transfer mechanism for > Linux/Unix applications based on bonobo/orbit. It has the following > parts: A clipboard server(auto-activated by oaf) A history manager A > set of API for developers Patches for mozilla, openoffice, Qt, etc. > > You can visit http://www.opencjk.org/projects/gclipboard/index.html for > more information. I guess it would be better to include gcm in cooker if you want a clipboard for gnome, as it seems to look much nicer: http://gcm.sf.net - http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gcm/doc/about_gcm.html Frederik
