I don't have Gnome setup, but I do remember messing with this awhile back, and found that the Tk Text widget was a reliable way of setting the clipboard. See Tk copy to mouse clipboard It will copy the text to the mouse paste clipboard as well as the Edit menu paste command. It will copy to Gtk2 programs, but the Gnome Desktop? I don't know. Hope it helps. See also Re: Move/Copy files using Clipboard! where you can reliably use the xclip command thru system.
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

In reply to Re: Copy files to Perl/Tk clipboard by zentara
in thread Copy files to Perl/Tk clipboard by Anonymous Monk

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