On 10/28/2018 02:08 PM, Akkana Peck wrote: > Tim Daneliuk writes: >> However, the highlighted text must be copied explicitly: >> >> Highlight >> Ctl-C > [ ... ] >> X actually has several clipboard buffers and it can be tricky to get this >> going. I don't recall, >> but either clipboard or pyperclip have a way to get to them all IIRC ... > > To get the highlighted text in X without needing a copy, you want the > PRIMARY X selection rather than CLIPBOARD. > > I think pyperclip can get it (it uses an external program like xsel, > and xsel can get any of the three X selections), or you can get the > selection using a GUI library like GTK, Qt or Tk. Some examples: > https://github.com/akkana/scripts/blob/master/pyclip > > ...Akkana >
Yes, that sounds right in the distant recesses of my memory :) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list