Closed LoganDark closed 4 years ago
Okay now alacritty select to clipboard is not working. xclip
can read it but Firefox and Discord don't.
But xterm select to clipboard works. Why??
Okay, it seems like xterm writes to the CLIPBOARD selection (when you say Select To Clipboard, which is.. surprisingly self-explanatory now) while xclip by default writes to PRIMARY (I think). Telling xclip to write to CLIPBOARD instead works.
Sorry for the false alarm.
When I copy something in Electron, or Firefox, or even xterm,
xclip
can read it. But when trying to usexclip
to set the contents of the clipboard, Electron and Firefox don't pick up on it but xterm does.What gives? What allows Electron and Firefox to know what I copy in the other, but not know when
xclip
changes the clipboard? And why does that happen ifxterm
still updates, telling me that xclip is not nonfunctional?I feel like this can only be attributed to blackbox. I think it's not properly monitoring the X clipboard for changes, and notifying apps that use EWMH/whatever other APIs that they are using.
Would it be possible to change this behavior? Is this not blackbox's fault but something else? Please let me know, because this is preventing me from using any command line utilities to copy things to my clipboard :/