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. > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > orca-list mailing list > orca-list gnome org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org >-- 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 _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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