If you have set-clipboard off then tmux will not affect the X clipboard in any way. I think you are barking up the wrong tree and you need to look at the environment passed to xsel.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:04:17PM +0000, Kaushal Modi wrote: > set-clipboard is by default on. > And I had added this to my ~/.Xdefaults > ! Enable copying from tmux > xterm*disallowedWindowOps: 20,21,SetXprop > While I was debugging this today, I commented that line out and rebuilt > the xrdb. > I also tried reloading tmux conf by setting set-clipboard to off. > But I saw no difference. > Also the contents of the Clipboard selection are fine. It is the Primary > selection that always gets overwritten by the top of the tmux > paste-buffer. > Here is more debug experiment if that gives you some hint: > I first save "abc" to the primary selection. > > echo abc | xsel -ip # save something to primary > > xsel -op # read primary > abc > Now I copy something random in emacs. That should be copied to both > primary and clipboard. > > xsel -op # read primary > > \tmux -V** > tmux 2.2 > The primary selection is automatically reset to the top most value of the > tmux paste-buffers! > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:52 PM Nicholas Marriott > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > Oh maybe you have set-clipboard on and the terminal is setting it. > > -- > > Kaushal Modi > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
