cdown / clipmenu

Clipboard management using dmenu
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I can't control it via environmental variables #207

Closed Archie-2021 closed 1 year ago

Archie-2021 commented 1 year ago

All the default values for $CM_* variables are empty, and when I set a value to them in my .bashrc it shows the value but does nothing to clipmenu behavior. Like I this line in my bashrc:

export CM_SELECTIONS="clipboard"

but it is still saves data from primary clipboard.

cdown commented 1 year ago

Then your session is not being instantiated after your bashrc is read. bashrc is not for environmental variables, so don't use it for that -- use your profile or other facilities provided by your DE.

Archie-2021 commented 1 year ago

Then your session is not being instantiated after your bashrc is read. bashrc is not for environmental variables, so don't use it for that -- use your profile or other facilities provided by your DE.

I also added it to the script I give my DE when initializes, but nothing happened.

cdown commented 1 year ago

Sorry, but I'm not going to spend time debugging your DE/distro's environment propagation -- please contact your distro support.