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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

Well, some interesting results, if I set DISPLAY to :0, it says no
protocol and does not work, if I set it to :1 it appears to work, but
nothing is actually is on the clipboard, setting it to 2, gives me the
error can't open display.

On Fri, 03 May 2019 21:08:11 -0400,
Storm Dragon wrote:
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> 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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