On 2 February 2018 at 12:44, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> 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 | xsel > > in 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.
