I may have found something much better than diodon or clipit. This clipboard manager is called gpaste so, in debian, it's apt install gpaste and what you get is a utility called gpaste-client. This little jewel can be called using the good old command line and it produces ASCII text output. If you want to save that into a file, you need to remove the checksums which are sent as the first field and I have no idea yet what a multi-line file looks like but I was immediately impressed when I saw 6 test clipboard saves I had made. I could get diodon to show them on the screen but it has no way to export the lines in to a file unless you do something exotic to the --display= option. Unfortunately, the man page for diodon is about 1 screen and it's kind of a one-trick pony which may do something very well but I'm not sure yet what that is. So, if you have this installed on your system, you run it from either a text-only command line or your terminal window and type gpaste-client history which spits out all the clipboard saves you have. I piped it through awk, telling awk to print $2 since each line in this case was free of spaces. Obviously, this won't work for images and multi-word files containing spaces but a little awk, sed and or perl should yield something useful. This is infinitely more useful as a tool than the other two clipboard managers I have been trying to use all day. There was an earlier posting from Tim who could get this sequential output with xclip but I never got that to happen. I may be doing something wrong, because it turns out I was not quite getting the syntax right to actually store entries in the gnome clipboard. What you end up doing looks like #!/bin/sh cat testfile1 | xclip -sel clip cat testfile2 | xclip -sel clip cat testfile3 | xclip -sel clip cat cbmail | xclip -sel clip cat tenant | xclip -sel clip The -sel clip part means -sellections clipboard In other words, the translation of one of these lines could be read as follows: cat testfile1 | xclip -sellections clipboard xclip is the conduit through which your file contents gush to the actual gnome clipboard. If you can get and run gpaste-client, you might like it. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list