X windows and Python?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-08-15, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to program my Python script to put a string into the
>> X windows cut buffer.  Can anyone suggest the simplest way to
>> do that?
>
> There isn't a simple way to do that.

I forgot to mention, there are actually three different
selections (plus the cut buffers).

Here's a nice explanation of just the selection part of the
mess:

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/docs/xwindows/selection.pdf

If you want something quick and dirty, you can just use
os.popen() to call xsel:

http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~vherva/xsel/

xsel doesn't do the "cut buffer" thing. It obtains ownership of
the selection, and then forks off a copy of itself to service
requests for the selection contents.  I would probably have
just copied the selection to cut buffer 0 and exited, but this
way works fine.

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