Reading clipboard contents with a bash script

[Collins]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:18:00 -0800 (PST) Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com>
wrote:> --- Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> > [ snips ]
> > 
> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:10:28 -0500 Joel Hammer
> > <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:> I use mutt, linux, and kde.
> > > One of the problems I have had with mutt is opening links to
> > internet
> > > sites in my email.
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, if you're using a graphical environment like
> > kde,
> > why are you stuck on a character mode mailer!?  Switch to kmail (I
> > don't
> > especially like it, but it works) or sylpheed.  The behavior you are
> > looking for is already built in, and you can pick your browser of
> > choice
> > to be invoked when you dbl-click.
> 
> Well, for starters, most X based email clients that i've ever seen
> suck quite badly.  They're bloated, unstable, unintuitive, or just
> plain ugly.
> 
> Other than on servers, I always run X on my boxes, and I use Pine.  
> 

YMMV.  Most, but not all.  I've never found Sylpheed to have any of the
characteristics you cited.  It's non-bloated, stable, pretty much
intuitive, and, of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Pine
works and it works well, but few would describe it as a thing of beauty.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
WWTLRD? - Gentoo_rc6-15 xfce + sylpheed + galeon