On 2 February 2018 at 12:44, Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Dave Airlie airlied@gmail.com wrote:
Turned out I was running on wayland instead of X.org and my cut-n-paste from gedit to firefox got truncated, wierd. I'll go annoy some people, and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Heh, so there's some Wayland clipboard buffer limit.
Yup or some bug getting the second chunks across from one place to another.
But that reminds me: is there any *standard* tool to programmatically feed into the clipboard?
I occasionally do things like
git shortlog A..B | xselin order to then paste it into some browser window or other.
And sure, that works well. But I do it seldom enough that I never remember the command, and half the time it's not even installed because I've switched machines or something, and xsel is always some add-on.
What's the thing "real" X people do/use?
I use gedit to move things from files to clip now, for mostly the same reasons, I know it's installed usually. xclip and xsel are two utilities I know off, but I don' think anything gets installed by default.
Dave.