Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 14 July 2006 10:56 am, Bob Fletcher wrote:
>
> Shoot! Well, I tried all of the obvious things - except KDE and
> klipper. (I am having enough 'fun' trying to learn GNOME.) The
> cut/paste operation is very erratic and usually will not work. As
> suggested by others, I tried entering "e" for replot with no results.
> I guess I am having the same sort of flaky performance described by
> Dmitri.

Part of the confusion in an earlier post is the expectation that you
can "copy" once, and "paste" multiple times from it.  This is not
true for gnuplot+X11 by default.  An pixel image placed on the
clipboard can be pasted elsewhere, but then it's not on the clipboard
any more.

Taking a step to the side ...
As I understand it, what you want to do is import the plot into
an OpenOffice doc.  I would suggest to you that even if you get
the X11 cut/paste working, this is a poor solution to the task
at hand.  You would be better off binding a hotkey to a command
sequence like:

"set term push; set term png; set output /tmp/plot.png; \
 replot; set term pop"

Then you can easily import the png image.
The same could be done for "set term post eps".

The image quality from either png or eps should be way better
than the bitmapped X11 plot image.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA