1 /* wxpaste.c- paste contents of cutbuffer to stdout
3 * Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Alfredo K. Kojima
5 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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10 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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20 #include "../config.h"
28 #include <X11/Xatom.h>
30 #include <sys/types.h>
31 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
32 # include <sys/select.h>
35 #define MAXDATA (4*1024*1024)
37 extern char *__progname
;
41 printf("Usage: %s [OPTIONS] [FILE]\n", __progname
);
42 puts("Copies data from X selection or cutbuffer to FILE or stdout.");
44 puts(" -display display display to use");
45 puts(" --cutbuffer number cutbuffer number to get data from");
46 puts(" --selection [selection] reads data from named selection instead of cutbuffer");
47 puts(" -h, --help display this help and exit");
48 puts(" -v, --version output version information and exit");
51 Time
getTimestamp(Display
* dpy
, Window win
)
55 /* So we do this trickery to get a time stamp:
57 * 1. Grab the server because we are paranoid and don't want to
58 * get in a race with another instance of wxpaste being ran at the
61 * 2. Set a dummy property in our window.
63 * 3. Get the PropertyNotify event and get it's timestamp.
65 * 4. Ungrab the server.
68 XSelectInput(dpy
, win
, PropertyChangeMask
);
70 /* Generate a PropertyNotify event */
71 XStoreName(dpy
, win
, "shit");
73 /* wait for the event */
76 if (ev
.type
== PropertyNotify
)
80 return ev
.xproperty
.time
;
83 char *fetchSelection(Display
* dpy
, char *selection
, char *progName
)
85 Atom selatom
= XInternAtom(dpy
, selection
, False
);
86 Atom clipatom
= XInternAtom(dpy
, "CLIPBOARD", False
);
91 struct timeval timeout
;
94 win
= XCreateSimpleWindow(dpy
, DefaultRootWindow(dpy
), 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0);
96 * The ICCCM says that we can't pass CurrentTime as the timestamp
97 * for XConvertSelection(), but we don't have anything to use as
100 now
= getTimestamp(dpy
, win
);
102 XConvertSelection(dpy
, selatom
, XA_STRING
, clipatom
, win
, now
);
107 /* wait for the convertion */
111 if (XPending(dpy
) == 0) {
113 FD_SET(ConnectionNumber(dpy
), &fdset
);
114 res
= select(ConnectionNumber(dpy
) + 1, &fdset
, NULL
, NULL
, &timeout
);
120 if (res
> 0 || XPending(dpy
) > 0) {
121 XNextEvent(dpy
, &ev
);
122 if (ev
.type
== SelectionNotify
&& ev
.xany
.window
== win
) {
129 /* if success, return the data */
133 unsigned long len
, bytes
;
136 if (XGetWindowProperty(dpy
, win
, clipatom
, 0, MAXDATA
/ 4, False
,
137 XA_STRING
, &rtype
, &bits
, &len
, &bytes
, &data
) != 0)
140 if ((rtype
!= XA_STRING
) || (bits
!= 8)) {
149 int main(int argc
, char **argv
)
156 char *display_name
= "";
157 char *selection_name
= NULL
;
159 for (i
= 1; i
< argc
; i
++) {
160 if (argv
[i
][0] == '-') {
161 if (argv
[i
][1] == 'h' || strcmp(argv
[i
], "--help") == 0) {
164 } else if (argv
[i
][1] == 'v' || strcmp(argv
[i
], "--version") == 0) {
165 printf("%s (Window Maker %s)\n", __progname
, VERSION
);
167 } else if (strcmp(argv
[i
], "-selection") == 0 || strcmp(argv
[i
], "--selection") == 0) {
169 selection_name
= argv
[++i
];
171 selection_name
= "PRIMARY";
173 } else if (strcmp(argv
[i
], "-display") == 0) {
175 display_name
= argv
[++i
];
180 } else if (strcmp(argv
[i
], "-cutbuffer") == 0 || strcmp(argv
[i
], "--cutbuffer") == 0) {
183 if (sscanf(argv
[i
], "%i", &buffer
) != 1) {
184 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: could not convert \"%s\" to int\n",
185 __progname
, argv
[i
]);
188 if (buffer
< 0 || buffer
> 7) {
189 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: invalid buffer number %i\n", __progname
, buffer
);
193 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: invalid argument '%s'\n", __progname
, argv
[i
]);
194 fprintf(stderr
, "Try '%s --help' for more information.\n", __progname
);
199 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: invalid argument '%s'\n", __progname
, argv
[i
]);
200 fprintf(stderr
, "Try '%s --help' for more information.\n", __progname
);
204 dpy
= XOpenDisplay(display_name
);
206 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: could not open display \"%s\"\n", __progname
, XDisplayName(display_name
));
210 if (selection_name
) {
211 buf
= fetchSelection(dpy
, selection_name
, __progname
);
217 buf
= XFetchBuffer(dpy
, &l
, buffer
);
223 if (write(STDOUT_FILENO
, buf
, l
) == -1)