Maybe requires xsel on ubuntu groovy Wayland session

rolandwalker / simpleclip

Simplified access to the system clipboard in Emacs.

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Open cbs228 opened 3 years ago

cbs228 commented 3 years ago

On Ubuntu 20.10, I find it necessary to

sudo apt install xsel

in order to get paste support to work. Without xsel, only copy works.

Can anyone else replicate this?

rolandwalker commented 3 years ago

Hi! This happens in the GUI?

cbs228 commented 3 years ago

Yes, this happens when launching emacs via the "Emacs (gui)" option or emacs-gtk.

fuzzbomb commented 2 months ago

Replicated. The package assumes the xsel program is present, however it isn't installed by default in all Linux/X11 distros.

For example: using the Arch Linux installer, and requesting a KDE Plasma desktop, installs X11 and Wayland, but doesn't install xsel.

The README could do with improvement; the "no external dependencies" is a bit misleading here.