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



Howdy,

Did you remember to use the -selection flag?

DISPLAY=:1 xclip -selection clipboard ...

Thanks,
Storm

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:55:43PM -0400, John covici wrote:
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.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>> > How do
>> > you spend it?
>> >
>> >         John Covici wb2una
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>> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
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>> >
>
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>         John Covici wb2una
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