[sf-lug] xclip -- command line interface to X selections (clipboard)" utility

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:50 PM, RBV <GoodWriter2548 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  At last night's SF-LUG meeting, some fellow attendees expressed in an
>  interest in learning more about xclip.  See:
>
>  http://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
>
>  The salient point is, that xclip "Reads from standard in, or from one
>  or more files, and makes the data available as an X selection for
>  pasting into X applications. Prints current X selection to standard
>  out."

There is also another similar tool to do this, but I forget the name
of it (anyone remember?).  I remember being able to pipe output to it
from the command line and then paste it in X.  Perhaps it was a
gnome-specific tool, but I am unsure.  Any ideas?
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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