Re: xclip problem

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 12/22/2017 9:38 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I tried all of this in a terminal and got :0.0 for the DISPLAY value. So 
> I exported DISPLAY=:0.0 then ran xclip and xclip errored out because it 
> couldn't find DISPLAY :0.0.

From:

https://github.com/astrand/xclip

"* Connects to the X display in $DISPLAY, or specified with -display host:0"

What happened if you don't set the DISPLAY variable (post the error if 
any along with the command and where are you executing/entering it)?

Are you on Debian 9 (Stretch)?

Why do you need 'xclip' and what are you trying  to accomplish?

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, john doe wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:29:42
> > From: john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
> > To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: xclip problem
> > Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:30:01 +0000 (UTC)
> > Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> >
> > On 12/22/2017 7:56 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > >  Hi Jude,
> > >
> > >  On 22-12-17 19:26, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > >  as near as I can tell, echo does not work when used after alt-f2 in a
> > > >  text command.
> > >
> > >  Just tried, for me it works (in KDE).
> >
> > I don't use mate but if it is like gnome:
> >
> > From:
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
> >
> > "Alt+F2 allows entering a command to launch an application."
> >
> >
> > So from now on could you enter the commands in a terminal?
> >
> > There is no need to redirect the output of 'echo $DISPLAY' to a file.
> >
> > > >  I also found out it's
> > > >  necessary to use touch to create a file first before anything can be
> > > >  sent to that file.
> > >
> > >  That is absolutely not normal.
> >
> > As Paul said, something is very rong here.


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John Doe