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Xeratul

12-18-2010 06:38 AM

Paste the file content into GEDIT with xclip ?

Hello,

I have a file clipboard.txt

I do :

Code:

sleep 10s ; echo "focus on the gedit" ; xclip -o clipboard.txt

is not working.

How to make that possible, how, please?

stress_junkie

12-18-2010 06:52 AM

Xeratul

12-20-2010 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stress_junkie (Post 4195753)

Code:

gerard@debian:~$ sleep 3s ; ls -al  | xclip 

# I go to gedit

gerarddebian:~$ sleep 3s ; ls -al  | xclip -selection c

# I go to gedit

not working :( sorry

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