Re: Using the GTK clipboard from terminal

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Leonel Gayard wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have been trying to play with the gtk clipboard from a terminal
> program. So I have this little application, gclip, that reads from
> stdin and writes to the clipboard. It does not work yet, and I intend
> to use it like this:
>
> $ cat some_file.txt | gclip
> <Then paste the clipboard contents using C-v>
>
> The source is below, and does not work yet. What's wrong ? Did I
> forget to call any start-up functions ? Does the clipboard fail if
> there isn't a widget application running ?
>
> /* headers */
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>     char buf[_MY_MAX_ + 1], c;
>     int i;
>     GtkClipboard *clip;
>
>     for (i = 0; i < _MY_MAX_; i++) {
>         if (EOF == (c = getchar())) {
>             break;
>         }
>         buf[i] = c;
>     }
>     clip = gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY);
>     gtk_clipboard_set_text(clip, "Hello World", -1);
>     gtk_clipboard_store(clip);
>
>     return 0;
> }

You may want to call gtk_init() before calling any other gtk functions.