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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: memory managment and (its) protection under Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:28:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:09:03 +0200, MarioCCCP wrote:

> partially OT : programming task Scenario : Debian Bookworm, XFCE4 Very
> often GUI programs show their results in the form of ListBoxes, whose
> content is mainly textual semantically, but very often cannot be
> copied/pasted as text and neither is easy to export as text. I have one
> case in FreeFileSync, that shows lists of files upwards of 500'000
> items, and other deduplicators programs.

Short answer: you are doing it wrong.

Remember, GUIs are not designed to be automated. If you want to extract a 
large list of filenames as output from one program to feed into another, 
you do it from the command line.