Hi,
I want to do the following: Invoke a mouse gesture sending a terminal command to open firefox and google for whatever text was selected.

Therefore I need a way to make the command access the buffer containing selected text (the one that can be pasted by middle clicking). Is there a system variable for that? Or how do I do it?

To be more precise, if I selected the text "grub" with the mouse in any application, I need a bash command that will echo it back. Like calling a command "getmouseselection" in a terminal or bash script that will output "grub", or "echo $selectedtext" with the same output.

How can I do that?

xclip or xsel (very similar functionality) may do what you want.

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Thanks a lot! xsel is exactly what I was looking for!