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Re: Paste buffer

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.os.linux
Subject	Re: Paste buffer
Date	2016-10-12 20:47 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
Message-ID	<e67lr1FsbuuU5@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-10-12, Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/16 21:26, Huge wrote:
>> Can anyone think of an easier way to get a filename into the paste buffer
>> than to right click it in a file chooser, select 'Rename', then CTRL-C?
>>
>> (Mint 17/MATE is it makes any difference.)
>
> MATE uses the Caja file mangler by default, and that is based on the 
> Nautilus from Gnome2. That allowed you to add scripts to the right click 
> menu by placing them in the appropriate folder. If this functionality 
> has made it through the transformation to Mint MATE, you would be able 
> to use a script like this along with xclip to get the full filename 
> (including path) into the clipboard:

You, Sir, are an absolute star. That works a treat. Thank you, thank you,
thank you!!!

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Paste buffer Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-10-12 20:26 +0000
  Re: Paste buffer Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-12 21:39 +0100
    Re: Paste buffer Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-10-12 20:47 +0000

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