I have made the following observations: $ xclip text.txt The execution terminates instantly, it copies the content of text.txt to the default selection XA_PRIMARY which means you can paste it th...

I know this command will paste the clipboard contents into a file: xclip -out -selection clipboard >> file.txt If I want to paste clipboard content into a variable like a string what do I ...

This is somewhat simple, I presume, but still I cannot figure out how to do it. I have the following function defined: date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M | xclip -selection c which gets a timestamp and puts i...

I have kivy 1.10.1, python 3.8.2 and I code on Ubuntu20.04. When I launch my little program, I receive this error: [CRITICAL] [Cutbuffer ] Unable to find any valuable Cutbuffer provider. xclip - F...

I'm using Windows 10. I open Git Bash and then ssh into an Ubuntu server. Often I want to copy the whole contents of a large text file. Rather than using scp to download the file to my Windows mac...

Gnome desktop has 2 clipboards, the X.org (saves every selection) and the legacy one (CTRL+C). I am writing a simple python script to clear both clipboards, securely preferably, since it may be don...

I am using the following configuration in my .tmux.conf to copy text to-and fro from xclip bind C-c run "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i -sel clipboard" bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer \"$(xclip -o -s...

I have a python script that needs to output some values to stdin and copies another string to clipboard. I'm using the module subprocess to execute the xclip utility through Popen something like th...

this is the command responsible for adding a new line to the string echo "string" | xclip -selection clipboard

I'm attempting to use xclip in a tmux session in my Ubuntu VirtualBox VM for some copy/paste keybindings, but keep getting the same error message. I have XQuartz installed on my host machine: y...

Summary: I have a bash script that runs a process in background, and is supposed to work as a normal command and inside a command substitution block such as $(...). The script itself spawns a proce...