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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I will do that and see what happens.

On Fri, 03 May 2019 09:39:07 -0400,
Janina Sajka wrote:
> Yes, it shouldn't matter about logging in via GDM.
>
> I've never seen that particular error? Have you pasted it into the
> Google machine yet? It definietly looks like an old X error of some
> kind. That "MIT" is a dead give-away.
>
> Whatever is triggering the error is undoubtedly the problem, or a
> pointer to the disc repency between what GDM launches and what your bash
> (or whatever shell) launches.
>
>
> Fix that and I'm pretty confident you'll fix xclip.
>
> Good luck! And write again as needed.
>
> Janina
>
>
> John Covici writes:
> > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > > > > How do
> > > > > you spend it?
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> > > > >         covici ccs covici com
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> > >
> > > Janina Sajka
> > >
> > > Linux Foundation Fellow
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> > >
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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
>
> -- 
>
> 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

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         John Covici wb2una
         covici ccs covici com