I am able to copy within a Perl-Tk application, but not able to paste externally to an X terminal window or a Konsole window. Within the Tk app, I am using ROText. I highlight the text with the mouse and upon Button-1 release, I have the text in a variable. I have tried the solutions in Mastering Perl-Tk, but to no avail. I may be overthinking this problem. I was under the impression that copy/paste should be pretty much automatic. I bind Button-1-release to capture the mouse event and use a callback. I have tried the clipboard commands but they don't work for me.

Does anyone have ideas or sample code that works?

I can't show the code I have, but I can say that when I copy by dragging the mouse over the characters originally, it copied nothing. I did a bind of Button-1-release and I could then capture the characters, but I could only paste within the Tk application. In your example below, you are not doing anything special, so how are you able to copy/paste outside of the script. If I unbind Button-1-release, I can't even perform the copy.

In reply to Perl-Tk copy/paste to X terminal by dadenn

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