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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I tried exactly that, still get the error.

On Fri, 03 May 2019 08:26:16 -0400,
Willem van der Walt wrote:
> 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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