Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

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

On Friday 14 July 2006 03:23 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> I'm not an X-pert (the usual disclaimer), but I believe there is
> indeed some confusion here, and I think it is with the phrase
> "clipboard".  From what I'm seeing in the code, this feature of being
> able to copy the X11 gnuplot image is not using the clipboard.

It is.

See for example
    http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

See also the X11 documentation. The X clipboard is exactly what we use.

See also extensive discussion here a few months ago,
when we were trying to get gnuplot to play nicely with both 
KDE3 and KDE4 clipboard handling.

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