From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gui-get
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:12:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fss17sqi.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8735o1rizz.fsf@yahoo.com
Po Lu wrote:
>> (gui-get-selection 'primary)
>> (gui-get-selection 'secondary)
>> (gui-get-selection 'clipboard)
>
> gui-get-selection uses the X selection names. So you should
> be doing:
>
> (gui-get-selection 'PRIMARY)
> (gui-get-selection 'SECONDARY)
> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD)
OK, thanks, but the are still all nil.
Now xsel(1x) and xclip(1) started to work tho ... what did
you do? :O
$ DISPLAY=":0" xsel -o
the truth is out there
As does xsel.el [1] - sweet ... no idea why or why the
`gui-get-selection' don't work.
[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/xsel.le
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2021-11-12 6:13 gui-get Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-12 6:22 ` gui-get Po Lu
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