From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: substitute for xclip?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:23:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47e0b079-1e4b-6b85-9627-81f04c0aca91@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwdsS-QwFxpB0pG+3QCvjipHuB-e09sdGFJH01AG3YaVL7CeA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 19.10.2022 um 11:01 schrieb Backwoods BC:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
> <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
>> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
> There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
> 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'
> 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard
>
There is also xsel and xclip; both need a running X server.
Note that *clip, xsel and xclip do not adapt character encoding, should
you wish to transfer text between terminals of different
encoding/locale. /dev/clipboard applies transparent character encoding
conversion (as does the powershell trick).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-20 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-19 6:58 Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 7:44 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 7:54 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-19 11:56 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 12:58 ` Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 22:52 ` Oliver Schoede
2022-10-20 7:27 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-20 8:12 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-20 3:23 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
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