Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Bob F. <rob...@kn...>]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 11:52 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 14 July 2006 10:56 am, Bob Fletcher wrote:
> >
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> 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.
> 

OK, thanks Ethan. I still haven't been able to get the hot key binding
to work properly, but I can enter the commands on the command line and
create the .png (or .emf) file. As you said, I can then drag this new
file into the OO document. This is not quite as convenient as the
Windows implementation, but once I get the hot key binding working
correctly, it should be good enough.
Thanks again,
Bob