Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 08:01:01 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Mahlerwein <mahlerrd@yahoo.com> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xclip Message-ID: <892787.5172.qm@web51005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20100101155123.GB2220@debian> References: <000401ca8af5$3d7a3440$b86e9cc0$@net> <20100101152549.GA2220@debian> <000101ca8af9$de64d3c0$9b2e7b40$@net> <20100101155123.GB2220@debian>
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>
>To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
>Cc: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>; FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>Sent: Fri, January 1, 2010 10:51:25 AM
>Subject: Re: xclip
>
>On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:48:28AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply.
>> This is kinda gnarly. I'm using VMware Player on Windows 7, FreeBSD is the
>> guest OS.
>> I have a script that outputs some text that I would like in the clipboard
>> that I can paste into an email in Windows Outlook.
>
>Ah right. You'll find that won't work at all.
>
>-- Thomas Adam
With VMware Workstation, I do something similar by launching the VM but ignoring the console of it. Use PuTTY to connect to the virtual machine via its IP address. From PuTTY, anything on screen is trivially copied to the host's windows clipboard by selecting it with your mouse.
How may that work for you?
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