Re: Getting the (text) selection from the clipboard

[Richard Shann]

Thanks for the info: as we have gtk in Denemo I've used that - just
didn't want to be doing something stupid!
Richard

> > Does anyone know if there is a guile procedure to get the (text)
> > selection? (That is from doing Copy in another application)
> > Richard
> 
> I assume you mean in the X sense.
> 
> In core Guile: no.  But maybe guile-gtk or guile-gnome might expose an
> equivalent Gtk+ API?
> 
> (There is also guile-xlib, which might theoretically be a good place
> for this; but in practice it doesn't provide any selection APIs.)
> 
> Regards,
>         Neil
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