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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I am logging in by gdm rather than startx, but its the same user as
the regular tty.

On Fri, 03 May 2019 08:36:35 -0400,
Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> 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
>
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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