HOWTO: Use xclipboard With Gnome
I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it's own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:$ xclipboardError: another clipboard is already running$Of course, ps(1M) will show no clipboard related processes running. This is because the functionality is performed by Gnome itself, I believe, as part of the functionality of gnome-settings-daemon.One of my colleagues gave me the challenge of getting xclipboard working on Gnome on OpenSolaris/Nevada, ie Gnome 2.6, and I found it quite easy to do in the end.The trick is to tell Gnome not to perform this functionality anymore as follows: Continue reading ►