Re: xclip problem

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

I don't yet know if the force worked or not.  With both commands an 
error message to the effect cannot open DISPLAY :0 was returned.  I have 
mate running on this system if it helps too.

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:10:34
> From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: xclip problem
> Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:10:53 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>
> Hello,
>
> Jude DaShiell, on mer. 20 d?c. 2017 12:04:32 -0500, wrote:
> > When I use xclip it's with speakup running not orca so no display exists.
> > Unfortunately xclip cannot handle a run without a display being set.  I
> > tried copying a link in speakup with xclip so I could run it in firefox with
> > orca and link my computer to my dropbox account but that's not possible.
>
> You can force display:
>
> DISPLAY=:0 xclip -o
> echo foo | DISPLAY=:0 xclip -i
>
> Samuel

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