Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:40:50 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jason Dusek <jason-dusek@uiowa.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redirecting Output Into The Copy Buffer Message-ID: <20040712224050.GB42183@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <40F3122D.3060501@uiowa.edu> References: <40F3122D.3060501@uiowa.edu>
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In the last episode (Jul 12), Jason Dusek said: > Most of the time, when I click the third mouse button something gets > pasted wherever my cursor is. Presumably it gets pasted from some > buffer somewhere, let's call it the X buffer or buffer X. Is there > some way to redirect the output of a terminal command into the X > buffer? Then I can run something like this: > > 5 # dmesg > [wherever the X buffer is] Take a look at the x11/xclip port; I think it does what you want. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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