From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gui-get Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:12:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87fss17sqi.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87k0hd7vff.fsf@zoho.eu> <8735o1rizz.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13080"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:gbCPC+icVd6H+cvVCjUHK4Eve4A= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 08:16:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlQnB-0003Cv-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:16:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34826 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlQnA-0007Oj-LX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlQjS-0003CK-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:54686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlQjR-0001Xy-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlQjO-00096n-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:12:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134530 Archived-At: 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 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal