xsel

Program for manipulating the X clipboard
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xsel-1.1.0.txt (2063B)

      1xsel 1.1.0 Release
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      3
      4XSel is a command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X
      5selection. Normally this is only accessible by manually highlighting
      6information and pasting it with the middle mouse button.
      7
      8This release is available as a source tarball at:
      9
     10  http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/download/xsel-1.1.0.tar.gz
     11
     12New in this release
     13-------------------
     14
     15This release adds basic support for COMPOUND_TEXT and fixes a configuration
     16bug.
     17
     18Details:
     19
     20	* Support for retrieving COMPOUND_TEXT atoms. The COMPOUND_TEXT
     21	  atom in ICCCM is an earlier method of handling international
     22	  text; most modern applications use UTF8_STRING instead. The
     23	  level of support included here allows xsel to retrieve a
     24	  COMPOUND_TEXT selection verbatim, without performing charset
     25	  conversion. When maintaining the selection, xsel does not
     26	  currently attempt to serve COMPOUND_TEXT, but handles UTF8
     27	  requests where possible.
     28
     29	  Thanks to Richard Zidlicky for reporting this bug and testing the
     30	  fix.
     31
     32	* Fixed missing configuration checks for X11 libraries.
     33	  Reported by Samuel Saint-Pettersen.
     34
     35About XSel
     36----------
     37
     38XSel's most common use is to set or get the X selection:
     39
     40	* To read a file into the X selection: xsel < file 
     41	* To write the X selection to a file:  xsel > file 
     42
     43You can use xsel in shell scripts and desktop keybindings, so that the
     44contents of the X selection are available to command arguments:
     45
     46	    mozilla --remote "openurl(`xsel`)"
     47
     48XSel can also be used for some more complicated tasks:
     49
     50	* To append to the X selection:        xsel --append < file 
     51	* To follow a growing file:            xsel --follow < file 
     52
     53You can even tell applications to delete their selected text:
     54
     55	* To delete the contents of the selection: xsel --delete 
     56
     57Other options include various ways of manipulating the secondary and
     58clipboard selections, and of making the selection contents persist in
     59memory. For full details see:
     60
     61    http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/
     62
     63enjoy :-)
     64
     65Conrad Parker.