kde hackers little friend - dcop

Do you want to script kde applications? Dcop could be the answere. There is an command line interface which is surprisingly called dcop. So for a quick start: Open a shell type: "dcop" and hit enter. You will see applications that have a dcop interface. If you are using klipper, which is normally the case, you can control the clipboard through it's dcop interface. Let's see howto do this. Type: "dcop klipper" and hit enter. You will see the supported interfaces. Type: "dcop klipper klipper" to check out the klipper-Interface. You will see the following interface:

QCStringList interfaces()
QCStringList functions()
QString getClipboardContents()
void setClipboardContents(QString s)
void clearClipboardContents()
void clearClipboardHistory()
QStringList getClipboardHistoryMenu()
QString getClipboardHistoryItem(int i)
int newInstance()
void quitProcess()

Now you can simply call a method like this:

dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents "Hello from dcop"

This will put "Hello from dcop" to your clipboard.
Note that you can use tab-completition, so if you type: "dcop klipper klipper setC" and hit TAB it will complete to: "dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContent".