XCLIPBOARD(1) XCLIPBOARD(1)
NAME
xclipboard - X clipboard client
SYNOPSIS
xclipboard [-toolkitoption ...] [-w] [-nw]
DESCRIPTION
This program is currently unsupported. It is provided
in the GSE demos directory as a user convenience.
The xclipboard program is used to collect and display
text selections that are sent to the CLIP_BOARD by
other clients. It is typically used to gather together
and hold a block text that has been selected from a
variety of different places.
Since xclipboard uses a Text Widget to display the
contents of the clipboard, text sent to the CLIP_BOARD
may be reselected for use in other applications.
An xclipboard window has the following buttons across
the top:
quit
When this button is pressed, xclipboard exits.
erase
When this button is pressed, the contents of the
text window are erased.
OPTIONS
The xclipboard program accepts all the standard X
Toolkit command line options as well as the following:
-w
indicates that lines of text that are too long to
be displayed on one line in the clipboard should
wrap around to the following lines.
-nw
indicates that long lines of text should not wrap
around.
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SENDING TO CLIPBOARD
Text is copied to the clipboard whenever a client
asserts ownership of the CLIP_BOARD selection.
Examples of event bindings that a user may wish to
include in their resource configuration file to use the
clipboard are:
*VT100.Translations: #override \
Button1 <Btn2Down>: select-end(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Button1 <Btn2Up>: ignore()
*Text.Translations: #override \
Button1 <Btn2Down>: extend-end(CLIPBOARD)
X DEFAULTS
This program accepts all the standard X Toolkit
resource names and classes as well as:
wordWrap (class WordWrap)
specifies whether or not lines of text should wrap
around to the following lines. The default is no.
SEE ALSO
xcutsel(1), xterm(1)
BUGS
The erase button is not yet implemented.
It would be nice to have a way of specifying the file
in which the clipboard contents are saved.
FILES
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XClipboard specifies required
resources
AUTHOR
Ralph R. Swick, DEC/MIT Project Athena
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