An RFE for the clipboard

[Steve Holmes]

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God, Love it!

I didn't know about the xclip package and that capability.  I'll
definitely have to give that a look for the time being.  I too would
also love the ability to do this.  Some kind of global hotkey system
could possibly be imployed to do this as an interrim solution.  

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:43:11PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Now that Orca has become a common tool for many of us, at least for part
> of our Linux computing activity,
>  wanted to put in an enhancement request whereby Speakup might pump data
> into the X clipboard, and retrieve X clipboard contents in the console
> environment. I would note this is already possible. My request is that
> we streamline the process.
> 
> Here's how it's possible today:
> 
> Make sure you have DISPLAY:0 exported and the xclip package installed.
> 
> Put some text into Speakup's clipboard.
> 
> Issue the command:
> 
> xclip -selection clip-board
> 
> Press enter and do Insert+/ to paste the contents of the Speakup
> clipboard into xclip. Terminate by pressing Ctrl+d.
> 
> Change to your gui desktop and paste using Ctrl+v.
> 
> It's also possible to go the other direction with:
> xclip -o -selection clip-board
> 
> But, what would really be nice is to get rid of the intermediate steps
> with xclip. It would be so much cooler to simply have Speakup's
> clipboard also populate the X clipboard when we do Mark and Cut in the
> console. And, it would be ever so so cool to have the X clipboard
> automatically populate Speakup's clipboard when a Ctrl+x or Ctrl+c is
> actuated on some text in the gui environment.
> 
> Thoughts, anyone? Mr. Kirk, Sir, Most Esteemed Product Maintainer?
> 
> Janina
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