On 11/22/2018 11:33 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: [snip] > On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:49:00 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> On 11/22/2018 10:02 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: >>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:35:42 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>>> I have a simple text file (with few lines in it) and using XFCE. >>>>
>> Hmm... I tried it from the command line and restarting the XFCE; nothing >> in the clipboard, empty. Nothing to paste. > > I don't understand what you are meaning. Have you ran xclip and > then restarted XFCE? O_o. Of course this will not work, because X > server is being reset during restart. You need to run xclip after > XFCE is started. The ways to automate this are described above. > >> xclip -in test.txt > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko > Andrew, it worked but the sequence is: xclip -sel clip < test.txt -- Regards, Thelma