Method

XdpSessionselection_read

Declaration [src]

int
xdp_session_selection_read (
  XdpSession* session,
  const char* mime_type
)

Description [src]

Request to read the contents of the current clipboard selection in the passed mime type format. On success a file descriptor is returned, which can be read from to retrieve the clipboard selection content.

Parameters

mime_type

Type: const char*

A string containing the requested mime type.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: int

A file descriptor, or -1 on error. The caller must close the file descriptor when finished with it.