Re: [gentoo-user] copy text file to clipboard on startup

On 11/22/2018 11:33 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:49:00 -0700 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>> On 11/22/2018 10:02 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:35:42 -0700 thelma@×××××××××××.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


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Regards,
Thelma