Re: X clipboard

[Artur Skonecki]

bufferfile "$HOME/.screen-exchange"
# a keybinding for quick xsel
bind > eval  'writebuf' 'exec sh -c "< $HOME/.screen-exchange xsel -i -p"' 'echo 
"Copybuffer written to $HOME/.screen-exchange and to clipboard"'

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Axel Beckert wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:23:05PM +0100, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
> > is it possible to copy a text selection to the X clipboard? Right now
> > I'm copying text and piping it into xsel, which works but is a bit
> > cumbersome, some kind of wrapper or macro would be handy.
>
> "writebuf" can write the contents of the paste buffer to a specified
> file.
>
> With xsel, xclip, xcb and friends and maybe a shell script which runs
> several 'screen -X' commands in a row and a key bound to executing
> that shell script should be possible. Maybe screen's eval command can
> also help.