Howdy John, Try setting the DISPLAY variable first: DISPLAY=:0 xclip -selection clipboard ... Thanks, Storm On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 09:48:22PM -0400, John covici wrote:
When I try xclip -i <any string> from a regular tty I get the following error: Error: Can't open display: (null) What am I missing? On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:34:43 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:John: I use these commands in a regular tty all day long to paste between the Speakup clipboard and the Gnome clipboard. I wish we had a more automated way of doing that, but so far, we don't afaik. As to what you paste, it doesn't matter. It can be any string. A filename, a URI, a credit card number, whatever. It doesn't matter. John Covici writes: > But the xclip manpage seems to want you to execute it in a > gnome-terminal or other session, not a regular tty. When you say > selection, do you mean a file name? > > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:48:02 -0400, > Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > Hi, John: > > > > To get content from a bash tty into xclip I use an alias I've created > > that basically does: > > > > xclip -i -selection clipboard\n > > > > From there I paste, most often using the Speakup paste command followed > > by a pair of Ctrl-d commands. > > > > FYI: going the other way, I have an alias that prints out on a tty: > > > > xclip -o -selection clipboard\n > > > > I should tweak that second one a bit because it's always followed by my > > bash prompt without any kind of break. But, what can I say. I can work > > with it and fixing that isn't a high priority for me. > > > > hth > > > > Janina > > > > John Covici writes: > > > Hi. I have some basic questions about gnome -- using 3.30 I think. > > > How to get a file into the clipboard? I tried xclip -r <filename> but > > > nothing happened. I know this because control-shift-v did not paste > > > anything into the terminal window. > > > > > > I would also like to know if there is a way to open a file with > > > firefox and actually type its name. I see things to navigate, but I > > > just want to be able to type the name. Can I do firefox <file name> ? > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > > > -- > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > > How do > > > you spend it? > > > > > > John Covici wb2una > > > covici ccs covici com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > orca-list mailing list > > > orca-list gnome org > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list > > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca > > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ > > > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html > > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka > > > > Linux Foundation Fellow > > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici wb2una > covici ccs covici com -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa-- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici ccs covici com _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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