Re: xclip problem

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

As of now, I removed the entire graphical user environment from this 
disk since I was getting too much keyboard latency and probably install 
it later then I will return to this problem.  Before that, I'll try all 
of this with a system that doesn't use startx to run the graphical user 
environment and see if I get lucky in there.  For those that use startx 
to start their graphical user environments, does a way exist to stop the 
graphical user environment and return to command line environment short 
of powering down the system?

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, john doe wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:32:26
> From: john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: xclip problem
> Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 04:32:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>
> 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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