Accessing clipboard through software built on Python

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 10/28/2018 02:08 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk writes:
>> However, the highlighted text must be copied explicitly:
>>
>> Highlight
>> Ctl-C
> [ ... ]
>> X actually has several clipboard buffers and it can be tricky to get this going.  I don't recall,
>> but either clipboard or pyperclip have a way to get to them all IIRC ...
> 
> To get the highlighted text in X without needing a copy, you want the
> PRIMARY X selection rather than CLIPBOARD.
> 
> I think pyperclip can get it (it uses an external program like xsel,
> and xsel can get any of the three X selections), or you can get the
> selection using a GUI library like GTK, Qt or Tk. Some examples:
> https://github.com/akkana/scripts/blob/master/pyclip
> 
>         ...Akkana
> 


Yes, that sounds right in the distant recesses of my memory :)