bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Parvesh Monu]

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I have this template which captures clipboard content in file. It works 
fine when emacsclient is running, but if no client is running then 
server adds empty entry.

(add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
        '("x" "Clips" entry (file+headline "/home/user/desktop/clips" 
"Clips")
          "** %x" :immediate-finish t :prepend t))


*System:* 5.10.16-arch1-1
*Desktop Environment:* xfce
*GNU Emacs 27.1*


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bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Parvesh Monu <parvesh.dhullmonu@gmail.com> writes:

> I have this template which captures clipboard content in file. It works fine when
> emacsclient is running, but if no client is running then server adds empty entry.
>
> (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
>        '("x" "Clips" entry (file+headline "/home/user/desktop/clips" "Clips")
>          "** %x" :immediate-finish t :prepend t))

I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly here -- but I think you're
saying that if you start "emacs --daemon", then that daemonised Emacs
can't communicate with the X clipboard?

I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural?  If you don't have
an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
access the clipboard, either.

I don't know how Org is talking to the clipboard, though.  Anybody?

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Parvesh Monu]

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I don't know if it will help, but I found workaround to capture X-clipboard.

Since %x doesn't work with daemon, I used %i and passed X-clipboard's
content using xsel. Like,

xdg-open "org-protocol://capture?template=h&body=`xsel`"

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 8:25 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Parvesh Monu <parvesh.dhullmonu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have this template which captures clipboard content in file. It works
> fine when
> > emacsclient is running, but if no client is running then server adds
> empty entry.
> >
> > (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
> >        '("x" "Clips" entry (file+headline "/home/user/desktop/clips"
> "Clips")
> >          "** %x" :immediate-finish t :prepend t))
>
> I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly here -- but I think you're
> saying that if you start "emacs --daemon", then that daemonised Emacs
> can't communicate with the X clipboard?
>
> I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural?  If you don't have
> an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
> access the clipboard, either.
>
> I don't know how Org is talking to the clipboard, though.  Anybody?
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>

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bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly here -- but I think you're
> saying that if you start "emacs --daemon", then that daemonised Emacs
> can't communicate with the X clipboard?
>
> I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural?  If you don't have
> an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
> access the clipboard, either.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I think the conclusion here is that this is working as it should, so I'm
closing this bug report.  If I misunderstood, please respond to the
debbugs address and we'll reopen.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural?  If you don't have
>> an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
>> access the clipboard, either.

Actually, that's not quite correct: Emacs can talk to the X server as
long as the terminal object remains available, but there is no way for
_other_ clients to ask for the contents of Emacs's selections if it
doesn't have at least one open frame that can be used as the owner for
the selection(s).