xclip always stays in the background because it has to own the clipboard, it isn't up to tmux to kill it, it should exit when a new xclip comes along.
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 18:00 Kaushal Modi, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been having this in my tmux config for many years and it worked > fine, until recently (past few months). > > ===== > set -g set-clipboard off # default is on > > # Copy tmux buffer to primary and clipboard selections > # run -b runs a shell command in background > # http://grota.github.io/blog/2012/05/08/tmux-clipboard-integration/ > bind C-w run -b "tmux show-buffer | xclip -i -sel pri && tmux show-buffer > | xclip -i -sel cli" > > # Paste into tmux; also replace LF characters with > # space as separator characters (-s) when pasting. > # Yank from primary > bind C-y run -b "xclip -o -sel pri | tmux load-buffer - && tmux > paste-buffer -s ' '" > ===== > > I just realized that the xclip processes created using these bindings > never get killed. Once a certain number of xclip processes are running in > parallel, copy/pasting in tmux using the above bindings stops working. > > Has there been a change in tmux 3+ that could affect this? I don't recall > having to kill stray xclip processes in the last tmux 2.x version. > > -- > Kaushal Modi > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAFyQvY0LcvEWcshNM1-Px6kRus6MnzBneu%3D_grK-7_mVeCmYNA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAFyQvY0LcvEWcshNM1-Px6kRus6MnzBneu%3D_grK-7_mVeCmYNA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAEdLfcE%2B920OdMUTBTqQMzj4sj2Z4BPNWVn%3DFXhfXxtxEk68Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
