Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:53:14 -0500 From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cut'n'paste w/ Java graphical apps in XFree86 Message-ID: <20031130015314.GA83363@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20030726092932.GD17642@starjuice.net> References: <20030726084125.GB17642@starjuice.net> <20030726085754.GA78370@moo.holy.cow> <20030726092932.GD17642@starjuice.net>
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in message <20030726092932.GD17642@starjuice.net>, wrote Sheldon Hearn thusly... > > On (2003/07/26 04:57), parv wrote: > > > (XFree86 mentioned) > > > > > At the moment, I use clumsy old xclipboard as a middle-man to > > > broker these cut'n'pastes. > > > > > > Is there a better trick for merging these two cut'n'paste buffers? > > > > Did you try xclip & wmcliphist? > > Well xclip seems to deal with only the XA_PRIMARY, XA_SECONDARY or > XA_CLIPBOARD selections, none of which can "see" the clipboard used by > AWT/Swing. > > And wmcliphist just looks like a GUI cliboard manager with access to the > same resources. It's just a pretty xclipboard. :-) Quite old thread, i don't know if it will help OP or not... I just found out that using javax.swing.JTextArea does not allow me to copy the text (in X; BTW xclip Just Works) but java.awt.TextArea does. Reason seems to be explained quite well here... http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Wger7.16046%24vq.3236736%40typhoon.ne.mediaone.net - Parv --
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