Read KDE clipboard content
 

Hi

Is there anyway that I could get the content of the clipboard (I use KDE) inside a shellscript? I want to copy the content of the clipboard to a file programatically.

Thanks

Neranjana

Try this

Hey, this is great. I just managed to configure Festival (speach synthesizer) to read the contents of the clipboard. If any body is interested, the shell script is

dcop klipper klipper getClipboardContents > $HOME/festivaltext
festival --tts $HOME/festivaltext

I have Mandrake 10.0 and have festival, and festvox rpms installed.

I created an icon in the taskbar to call this shellscript. So now when I want to read text, all I need to do is select the text in any application, right click and copy to clipboard and then click the shortcut to the above shellscript and Festival will read it aloud. There maybe better and more efficient ways to do it but this is the best I could find.

Thanks

Neranjana

Read and Write Gnome Clipboard
 

Do you know how to read and write to the gnome clipboard through a shell script?