[Tutor] xselection

Michael Montagne Michael Montagne <montagne@boora.com>
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:01:29 -0700


>On 16/09/02, from the brain of Daniel Yoo tumbled:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Michael Montagne wrote:
> 
> > How can I access the current xselection to pass to my browser as a
> > string?  I want to open URLs that way to simulate the klipper
> > functionality found in KDE.
> 
> Alan Cox wrote a program called "googlizer" to pull stuff from X's
> selection buffer:
> 
>     http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/GDP/
> 
> 
> Based on that code, I had written something in PyGTK that might be useful
> for you:
> 
>     http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/Selection.py
> 
> 
> Good luck!

Oh man!! Perfect.  Thank you.  I'm still learning but I'll pass back
what I've figured out.  I'm trying to add some functionality to rox.


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