On 29/09/26 at 15:24, [email protected] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 03:07:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote:
Hello,

I'd like to write the content of a .txt file to the X11+KDE clipboard, in
order to do that I defined an "alias":

Xclip is your friend:

   xclip < youefile

(Yes, yes, you can also "cat yourfile | xclip", but, although
a common idiom, it comes from the department of redundancy
department [1]).

Note that there are three selections to choose from (primary,
secondary and clipboard: applications are sometime confused
which one is "the right one") -- see the xclip man page for
details.

Cheers

[1] https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award

Yes I know about "xclip" but I would be liked to use the Dbus channel so I save another package on the system: xclip or xsel. In addiction using Dbus may work also with Wayland (I suppose) when I'll migrate to it next year with Forky.

Kind regards,
--
Franco Martelli

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