paste graph and coords under X11 (was: Re: [ gnuplot-Bugs-1420675 ] ...)

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Yes, that's amazing that gnuplot on X11 can save every
>> drawing as a screenshot into the clipboard. Actually it
>> looks rather like an undocumented feature.
>
> Now if someone could only tell me what this is good for...

PM and Windows terminals has menu item "copy plot to clipboard" and 
obviously that's how "typical office users" get their images into 
presentations. The trouble of x11 is that it does not have such a menu.

> How can a screenshot be extracted from the clipboard to use
> elsewhere?  Why would you want to do this rather than
> generating a *.png image directly from gnuplot?

Well, I've just tried it ... make "test" in gnuplot's X11 terminal, run 
OpenOffice.org with a presentation, click MB2 ... and your graph is there in 
the size it was on screen! Fast, easy, user friendly and productive! So easy 
even under Linux!

I tried on KDE .. is it the same on other WMs?

Then, it should be noted in the x11 docs -- I think this feature is a good 
publicity for gnuplot (octave, etc.).

>> What about having this as a 'set term x11' option instead of
>> .Xdefaults? Editing this file is not what a normal user
>> wants to (can) do.
>
> But ~/.Xdefaults is exactly where individual users are
> supposed to configure their preferences.

Well, if the bug is fix, this default behaviour is fine with me.

>> Considering clipboard and KDE, the bug that "MB1"
>> double-click doesn't save mouse coordinate into clipboard
>> has not yet been fixed.
>
> It works for me.

Aha, it pastes into non-KDE apps (gvim) but not to KDE apps (kvim).
Strange.

> The documentation for klipper states that the button in the
> connfiguration menu marked
>   o Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection
> will cause all clipboard events to appear in klipper's selection
> history.  It doesn't.

Klipper's bug?


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