Re: [orca-list] problem using xclip on a regular tty
- From: Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>
- To: orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] problem using xclip on a regular tty
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 13:49:51 +0200
Hello Janina,
Also you can have several "virtual" monitors as you can have several
workspaces, all using the same physical screen.
For instance, if I type startx from tty1, an X server will start with a
display bound to tty7 and $DISPLAY=:0
Now I can go back to, say, tty2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and start another X server
like this:
DISPLAY=:1 startx
The new X server starts with a display bound to tty8.
I can switch between displays with Ctrl+Alt+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+F8
This is illustrated by this command's output:
didier[~]$ ps -ef |grep X
didier 1465 1446 0 mai04 tty1 00:00:00 xinit /home/didier/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :0 -auth
/home/didier/.serverauth.1446
root 1466 1465 5 mai04 tty7 01:33:50 /usr/libexec/Xorg :0 -auth /home/didier/.serverauth.1446
didier 23238 23219 0 13:22 tty2 00:00:00 xinit /home/didier/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :1 -auth
/home/didier/.serverauth.23219
root 23239 23238 0 13:22 tty8 00:00:03 /usr/libexec/Xorg :1 -auth /home/didier/.serverauth.23219
didier 23677 21788 0 13:33 pts/1 00:00:00 grep X
didier[~]$
All that using only the screen of my laptop.
But you can have only one orca running at a given time, so only one
"screen" can be read at a time, AFAIK.
Best,
Didier
PS It also works with more displays, I just tried:
didier 1465 1446 0 mai04 tty1 00:00:00 xinit /home/didier/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :0 -auth
/home/didier/.serverauth.1446
root 1466 1465 5 mai04 tty7 01:33:58 /usr/libexec/Xorg :0 -auth /home/didier/.serverauth.1446
didier 23238 23219 0 13:22 tty2 00:00:00 xinit /home/didier/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :1 -auth
/home/didier/.serverauth.23219
root 23239 23238 0 13:22 tty8 00:00:05 /usr/libexec/Xorg :1 -auth /home/didier/.serverauth.23219
didier 24395 24376 0 13:40 tty3 00:00:00 xinit /home/didier/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :2 -auth
/home/didier/.serverauth.24376
root 24396 24395 4 13:40 tty9 00:00:01 /usr/libexec/Xorg :2 -auth /home/didier/.serverauth.24376
didier 24689 21788 0 13:41 pts/1 00:00:00 grep X
didier[~]$
But of course there are limitations, like the number of ttys available
and the amount of available RAM <smile>
On 05/05/2019 11:11, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
Is there no way to query for that data?
Somewhere there must be a howto that would be informative. It strikes me
that many power users who are sighted use multiple monitors, so there
would indeed bevalues other than :0.
Note, the =: part of the setting reflects localhost. I thought I should
just note that fact for completeness here, because it seems it's
possible there'd be an ip address between the equals sign and the colon.
hth
Janina
Storm Dragon writes:
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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