http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/clipboard.htm A pointer or help discussing X vs Mac vs Windows clipboard processing - particularly the rather complicated X model - seems in order. Perhaps a pointer to nice cross-platform tool to give a Tk view of the clipboards to which a user has access, with auto-saving and loading of the contents, would be a nice example? ---- [Features of a Tk-based user interface to their system clipboards] ---- See also [Primary Transfer vs. the Clipboard]. ---- [Tk syntax help] - [Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming] - [Category Command]