Hi, It may simply be because vim is not compiled with clipboard support on Fedora:
$ vim --version | grep -e Features -e clipboard Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): -clipboard +iconv +path_extra -toolbar +eval +mouse_dec +startuptime -xterm_clipboard Best, Dridi On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Raphael Groner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > your issue sounds somehow like a RFE for Clipman to monitor also for some > commands from cli mode, but I do not know how difficult the implementation > is therefore, maybe it's technically impossible. Technical background: Vim > has its own clipboard manager in use that does not know anything about > running Xorg (or Wayland) applications, so I guess the own clipboard of vi > as in cli mode is used. Does it work if you select text with the mouse and > copy by help from context menu entry or the menu of the terminal emulator > (xfce4-terminal)? > > Did you check upstream for any existing issue? Otherwise, you should file a > RFE in rhbz and as well to upstream of Clipman (the latter is the generally > preferred way). > > You could also try with GPaste (based on Gtk as well) or Qlipper (Qt based) > as alternatives to Clipman. > > R. > > > Am 31.07.2015 um 14:00 schrieb [email protected]: >> >> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:23:16 +1000 >> From: Philip Rhoades<[email protected]> >> To:[email protected] >> Subject: Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does >> not show up in Clipman >> Message-ID: <e1c15f4923ed77da0f2408ed24e147b3@localhost> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed >> >> People, >> >> In Vim, these commands are supposed to copy text to the system clipboard >> - but the text does not show up in Clipman: >> >> "+yy >> >> "*yy >> >> - why doesn't this work? >> >> In fact, rather than copying the current line as above, I want to copy >> the text of a whole file which is not conveniently done by clicking and >> dragging the mouse . . but I can't even get it to work on one line . . >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil. > > > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
