Re: [orca-list] problem using xclip on a regular tty

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Willem is correct. The DISPLAY variable needs to be set as the user that
opened the X session. If there's some way to make it global, I don't
know what that his.

I start my graphical desktop that eventually brings up Orca using startx
from a tty where I'm logged in as janina. Thereafter, I can use my xclip
aliases in any tty where janina is the logged in user. I have just
confirmed that this will break if janina does a 'sudo -i,' so it is very
much tied to the logged in user who started X.

hth

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> John,
> You must be the same user iI think.
> I.E. startx as user john in one tty and in another, log in as john.
> Then do export DISPLAY=:0
> Then:
> echo 'some string'|xclip -i
> What to do in X itself, follow Janina's instructions, as you might have
> gathered, I am no gui guru.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2019, John Covici wrote:
>
> > I am trying to get data from the speakup clipboard to the X
> > clipboard.  If I do
> > xclip -i <string>
> > it says cannot open display.  If I do
> > DISPLAY=:0;xclip -i <string> I get the following error:
> > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyError: Can't open display: :0
> >
> > How can I get this to work, or is it impossible?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> > -- 
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> >
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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