Re: accessing the Linux clipboard...

["Raphael Tennenbaum" raphael@xxxxxxxx]

thanks for this. I had been puzzling through these issues the last few days, just
saving defined text to a file and using 'nix tools to manipulate the file. I used
dos2unix to convert the linefeeds, but for some reason couldn't get it to wipe out
the EOF.

so, I've simply stuck a "dos2unix -fp" statement atop the tr -d '\032' statement in
your xytonix.sh, and the whole thing works very nicely.

however, I'm hung up trying to invoke xytonix.sh from within Dosemu/Xy. if I shell
out, it runs successfully, but then the command line just sits there -- after a few
moments it will take keyboard entries, but it never returns me to a prompt.
nevertheless all the processing is completed and the stripped-and-EOF-zapped
selection is there on the clipboard, even though I'm left with a semi-zombie
dosemu window with XyWrite buried inside.

if I try to run it withing Xywrite, the screen flashes, but the command doesn't
actually process. does this sound like anything you've come across?

it's not a big deal -- I've simply put a symlink to xytonix.sh into
~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, right-click on the desktop, and select xytonix.sh from
the Scripts folder, and it's great.

-rafe


On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:37:36 -0500, Paul Lagasse wrote:

>Carl Distefano wrote:
>> I wonder if the xytonix.sh script can be tweaked so that input
>> from "frxy" stops when the EOF char is encountered?
>>
>> 
>Carl, thanks for the response. I've been experimenting some more and
>improved on the XPL program and script. I switched to saving the defined
>text to a macro, and the macro to a file, which was less complicated and
>didn't require cleaning out the contents of the file; it has so far
>accurately copied the selected text every time. But I now want take a
>look at what you sent.
>
>But as a quick reply to yr final comment, I did some online research and
>found a way to kill the EOF using the script; my revised xytonix.sh
>script is:
>
>#! /bin/bash
>#
># for xywrite/dosemu, for use with xytonix.pm
># removes EOF from frxy and outputs result to frxya
># copies frxya to clipboard for system use
># deletes frxya
>#
>tr -d '\032' < /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxy >
>/home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxya;\
>xclip -i -selection c < /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxya;\
>rm /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxya
>
>Paul Lagasse
>