Klipper - under the bonnet

[wedgetail]

In my investigation using wine to run a couple of smaller windows editor programs, I have struck a problem, I don't now what or where the "clipboard" is in PCLinuxOS. The closest I have come is Klipper which I equate to a simple "Clipboard Manager" in Windows terms.

Where is the clipboard?  I need to get my brain kickstarted again as my guessing does not seem to work at the moment.  

[Just17]

As I have no idea what Windows has, any comparison with a Windows application is useless to me.

Klipper is the KDE Clipboard Manager.

It appears in the system tray as a scissors icon.

What more do you need to know?

Clicking on the icon allows you to change its settings.

It's config file is

~/.kde4/share/config/klipperrc

[wedgetail]

Just17
I had to do something, as my brain stopped functioning, well it felt like it.   Anyway what I am looking at, where is the information held when you do copy and paste?  As you Klipper is the KDE Clipboard Manager, the bit that lets you see and manipulate the content in various ways.  

But when I wrote Clipboard Manager in the original post, something happened in my brain, started up again so I got to work.  I forgot X11 and X-window etc (not very comfortable with these words, meaning I don't really know how it operates).  Apparently here is two buffers called SELECTION and PRIMARY, one or both of these need to communicate across the wine boundary to the clipboard (Windows) so that if I copy something in Linux Opera it can be picked up in my wine text editor plus AceText another nimble tool.  

Well put it this way now the details get complicated but I starting to be able to specify what I know.  Too late tonight to find out more. ZZzz....

[Just17]

Ah! OK, you want to copy something from Linux to Win in Wine ......  sorry, no ideas .....  don't use Win or Wine 

[agmg]

http://wiki.winehq.org/CopyAndPaste

[wedgetail]

agmg
Thanks, this is a good link. I have had a very quick look, just saw it when closing this machine down.  I need to look closer at it because a quick lookthrough did not give me a hint why it only part works for me. 

[Georgetoon]

The clipboard in KDE is awesome!  Amazing tool to have.  Anything in Windows pales in comparison.  When I first saw it in action, it became one of the reasons why I swithed to Linux.

[wedgetail]

Georgetoon
If it suits you that is the main thing. there are a few thing I would like differently, and I have had a go but I was beaten.  Now I just use the text part.