Re: accessing the Linux clipboard...

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
> 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?
If you shell to DOS, does "system xytonix.sh" run -- is that what's
hanging? -- on my setup, it runs the command and returns me to the DOS
prompt without any delay. If it does run, you should be able to run "BX
do/nv system xytonix.sh Q2" in an XPL program.
I got the same behavior you're describing with the "unix" command when I
ran "unix xytonix.sh" just now at the DOS prompt. Ctrl+Break will
restore the prompt (if you allowed that combo with ksconfig), but when
I've had to resort to Ctrl+Break before -- during my earlier testing of
"unix xclip ..." and the like -- everything was subsequently unstable.
I do sometimes get a screen flash when my clipboard XYL program runs in
Xy4; that doesn't seem to be indicative of success or failure.
> 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.
Haven't tried that. In Gnome, "ALT+F2,xytonix.sh" will also run it (or
using whatever Gnome key-combo you might have replaced ALT+F2 with). On
this Ubuntu it's three keystrokes and enter to run, since the script is
recognized after "xy" is typed.

Paul