Question about rdesktop

[Ben Scott]

On 4/25/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> At work I run linux but I have to get my damn email via winbloze.

  What mail system?  There are often options that allow one to use
native nix software to connect to various doze-based mail systems.

> Here's my question. Is there *ANY* way to set a cut buffer in linux and then paste
> that value into the windoze screen?

  Hmmm... okay... on my system, with redesktop, empirical testing reveals that:

  On the nix/X11 side of things, when I highlight text with the mouse,
it usually gets copied into the PRIMARY X11 selection.  When that
happens, said text is automagically copied to the doze clipboard (via
rdesktop), where I can paste it normally (in my doze programs, usually
with [CTRL]+[V]).

  On the doze side of things, if I copy text to the doze clipboard, it
automagically gets copied to the X11 PRIMARY *and* CLIPBOARD
selections.  I can then paste it using middle-mouse-click (for
PRIMARY) or Edit->Paste (CLIPBOARD) or whatever.

Fedora Core 4
  kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
  glibc-2.3.6-3
  xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
  rdesktop-1.4.0-2
Win XP Pro SP2

  See also: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

  I don't know anything about X10 cut buffers.  JWZ says they're
obsolete and I should never, ever use them.  ;-)

-- Ben "I don't really know much about X11 selections, either" Scott