Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Jan 2 21:33:00 GMT 2004


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The windows console talks to the windows clipboard.
>>>Does the X clipboard talk to the windows clipboard (or will it someday)?
>>
>>This thread is all about this. There is the internal clipboard manager and
>>this is also available as an external program (xwinclip).
> 
> 
> I understood that, and was hinting that if you chose to make the
> explanation simple & to the point - perhaps to someplace online where it's
> discussed lucidly - you wouldn't have to exercise the keyboard so much.

A detailed write-up does not exist on the web.  It would already exist 
if someone had time to write it.  Nobody has had time yet.  We always 
welcome contributions, since we have more than enough to do right now.

Harold



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