Re: cut-n-paste woes

[noauth]

>> There are some "clipboard managers" out there, maybe one of them can
>> do this.

> I'll look into them. I'd be fine with a command line utility that
> could be used to clobber one buffer with the other. Already knowing
> the names of these facilities is pulling up some interesting links.

Check out xsel. Unfortunately I can't remember the download URL. The
author's email is conrad at vergenet dot net. It's most useful to do
the things you wish and only comprises a small command-line
utility. It should be included as an X utility and come with X11
distros, IMO.