From: Parvesh Monu <parvesh.dhullmonu@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 46704@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:22:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMBz1fAynjMKrBJ9bOMagr-LgrXVMHcxEGTX7fgX-ePbwwR5mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s7gkv8s.fsf@gnus.org>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 8:37 bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running Parvesh Monu
2021-02-22 14:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 15:52 ` Parvesh Monu [this message]
2022-06-19 13:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 1:21 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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