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



Howdy,

Sometimes your display is not :0. Try :1, :2, etc. If you get to :9 and it hasn't worked, that is most likely 
not the issue.

Thanks,
Storm

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:31:15AM -0400, John covici wrote:
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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