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

OK, finally that worked.  I am not sure why I had to use :1 for the
display, but between that and the use of -selection clipboard, that
made things finally work.

Thanks much.

On Sat, 04 May 2019 10:34:44 -0400,
Storm Dragon wrote:


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Howdy,

Ahh, the selection flag tells which clipboard you want to use. There are a few that X andles, but most 
often you want the clipboard. So, let's say you have file.txt:

DISPLAY=:1 xclip -selection clipboard -i file.txt

Or:


DISPLAY=:1 echo "Hello world" | xclip -selection clipboard

Thanks,
Storm

On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 10:18:53AM -0400, John covici wrote:

I just xclip -i <filename> or echo string|xclip -i  I don't think I
have a --selection in this one.
Yes, there is  -selection, but I don't know what the arguments mean.
I did -verbose and it said waiting for selection requests and just sat
there.

On Sat, 04 May 2019 09:49:01 -0400,
Storm Dragon wrote:


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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.

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