[plug] Tip for xclipboard

[Shayne O'Neill]

interestingly I've had NO problems with word 2k and crossover with
cut/paste. (well except that installing windoze products on linux makes
boxes ridiculously unstable...)



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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Brad Campbell wrote:

> Just one for the archives.
>
> I often want to highlight something in an xterm and paste it into word97 running under wine. (Or
> something in Win4Lin)
> I used to do this via a terribly convoluted method of creating/saving/opening temporary files. Just
> on a thought I opened up xclipboard and middle click pasted the text in the from the xterm and then
> just selected paste in word.
>
> Magic!
>
> Brad
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