Using X selection: copy and paste

zink has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks, I'm seeking help to write a script that read a portion of file/user input and make it as PRIMARY selection in x windows using Tk::Selection. It works when i paste the selection to Xterm, but it fail when i try to paste the selection into other clients like kwrite. It seems that kwrite's request is being ignored. So any ideas to work around? The code:

$widget->SelectionClear;
$widget->SelectionOwn(-selection=>'PRIMARY');
$widget->SelectionHandle( -selection=> 'PRIMARY',-type=>'STRING',-form
+at=>'STRING',sub {$data} );
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Re: Using X selection: copy and paste by rovf (Priest) on Sep 18, 2008 at 09:10 UTC
I darkly remember that K Desktop Apps maintain their own clipboard in parallel to the X Clipboard. There is an option to keep them in sync - it is somewhere in the K Desktop Settings - but I would not be surprised if there are cases where this fails. As I don't use KWrite, I don't know. Maybe this is best asked in a KDE forum. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply]
Re: Using X selection: copy and paste by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 18, 2008 at 12:18 UTC
I've noticed that the Tk::Text widget does the best job of copying, see if a selection from a Text widget will work in a K paste. See Copy files to Perl/Tk clipboard I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply]
Re^2: Using X selection: copy and paste by zink (Initiate) on Sep 18, 2008 at 12:43 UTC
I tried to used the text widget before, but it produces same result. Things only working when i turn on xclipboard and use Tk::Clipboard (malfunction without xclipboard), but i dun want to depend on the xclipboard. I used the Super Search and find similar case and none seems to have solution so far. Example: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=121939	[reply]
Re^3: Using X selection: copy and paste by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 18, 2008 at 12:50 UTC
You could try xclip and run it thru system. You may have to ask this on a KDE news/mail list. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply]
Re^4: Using X selection: copy and paste by zink (Initiate) on Sep 19, 2008 at 03:38 UTC
Re: Using X selection: copy and paste by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 18, 2008 at 14:41 UTC
I just tried this script, and it worked to paste into kwrite. I use ICEWM, so I was running kwrite without KDE....if that makes a difference like rovf mentioned. `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Tk; use Tk::Clipboard; my $mw = tkinit; $mw->withdraw; #use Tk without showing a window my $content = 'foobar'.time; print "$content\n"; $mw->clipboardClear; $mw->clipboardAppend($content); MainLoop;` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Using X selection: copy and paste by zink (Initiate) on Sep 19, 2008 at 03:32 UTC
No, it didn't work as well. I'm using FVWM (stable version)	[reply]
Re^3: Using X selection: copy and paste by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 19, 2008 at 12:26 UTC
I used to use FVWM but switched to ICEWM after FVWM showed some non-compliance to X standards. Did xclip work? I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply]
Re^4: Using X selection: copy and paste by zink (Initiate) on Sep 20, 2008 at 01:33 UTC
Re: Using X selection: copy and paste by repellent (Priest) on Sep 20, 2008 at 01:46 UTC
I had good luck with xsel by Conrad Parker. You can open pipes to read from and write to the different selection buffers (default is PRIMARY).	[reply]