Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

[David Hirschfield]

This is good info...but I'm looking for the opposite direction: I want 
to place some arbitrary command output text into the clipboard, not get 
the current selection out of the clipboard.

Any help on that end?
-Dave

kdart wrote:
> David Hirschfield wrote:
>   
>> Strange request, but is there any way to get text into the linux
>> copy-paste buffer from a python script ?
>>
>> I know the standard python libraries won't have that functionality
>> (except as a side-effect, perhaps?), but is there a simple trick that
>> would do it on linux? A command line to get text into the buffer? Using
>> a gui toolkit as a proxy to get text in there?
>>     
>
> There's a utility called xclip that you can wrap with popen2 or
> something similar. I use my own proctools:
>
> 	import proctools
> 	XCLIP = proctools.which("xclip")
> 	es, arg = proctools.getstatusoutput("%s -o -selection primary" %
> (XCLIP,))
>
> "arg" has the X selection.
>
>   

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