Re^2: how do I place text into clipboard on Linux?

This probably not exatly what I want

by "Perl to help me with clipboard" I meant that I copied something into clipboard elsewhere (not in my application), then run my one-liner and have in my clipboard something else.

Say, I start Mozilla, make a selection, and then in menu item "Edit->Copy" place a selection into clipboard.

Can I write a one-liner to, say, upcase contents of clipboard, when I paste it elsewhere, I will see upcased content of selection in that Mozilla, which could be un-selected to the moment already?

Also, it must work without X11 also.

In win32 I do this as: perl -MWin32::Clipboard -we "$clip=Win32::Clipboard;$clip->Set(uc($clip->Get())"
my last example is lenghty, but I have wrappers so my actual one-liner is much shorter.

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Re^3: how do I place text into clipboard on Linux?
by tlm (Prior) on May 02, 2005 at 09:45 UTC

I have no experience with this very problem, but I would look into the docs for Tk::selection and Tk::Clipboard.

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Re^3: how do I place text into clipboard on Linux?
by chanio (Priest) on Aug 02, 2005 at 05:35 UTC

Use it like this (very simple)...

  use Tk::Clipboard;
  my $mw = MainWindow->new(); 

  ... ## after having what you want to copy...

   $mw->clipboardClear;                   ## prepare the clipboard (ne
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   $mw->clipboardAppend($selected_list);  ## copy it (see perldoc)
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If you don't use clipboardClear before the second or successive copies, it concatenates what you copy...

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