copy/paste not working

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:46:53 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> > xclip -o -selection p | strings
> > xclip -o -selection s | strings
> > xclip -o -selection clip | strings
> 
> Or if xsel should be installed:
> 
>   xsel -p -o | strings
>   xsel -s -o | strings
>   xsel -b -o | strings
> 
> You not necessarily need to add '| strings', but I would do so, just
> 'xsel -p -o' etc. works, too.

I've been playing with a lot of things and may be confused
but seem to recall now
an issue with special or non-ASCII chars that prevented 
pasting. I think it might have been my c++ code generating
clipboard contents but in any case "od" may be informative.

If you can get the code to copy into clipboard and then not paste,
pipe it into od and look for special cahrs, 

od -ax 

or maybe

od -A x -t x1z -v  


And if you omit strings and terminal gets messed up I did 
discover that "reset" does work :)


> 
> IOW
> 
> 1. Select text from one of your Qt apps.
>    Copy by the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C (for terminals it's another
>    shortcut) or by a menu, e.g. a right click menu.
> 
>    Don't close the app! Some apps workaround the oddity that copying
>    the selected text is done when pasting, but other apps don't, see
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence#Why_does_this_happen.3F
> 
> 2. Either run xclip or xsel.
> 
> I seriously doubt that the secondary selection is used, it's more
> likely that something is broken. However, even if for what reason
> ever the secondary selection should be used, I doubt that somebody
> knows how to fix this. I might be mistaken, perhaps it's a KDE
> "feature".
> 
> If installing klipper from the official package
> (https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/plasma-workspace) requires
> to remove KDE apps, than the culprit might be related to the KDE
> packages inconsistency.
> 
> While I'm still in favour of using parcellite, if I were you, I would
> install klipper. I wouldn't use klipper, but getting rid of the
> packages the plasma-workspace package dislikes and their config files
> outside of HOME, might fix the issue.
> 
> I would write down or more likely use a GTK terminal (the best terminal
> anyway is https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/roxterm) and parcellite to
> remember the packages and then run
> 
>   sudo apt purge package_1 package_2 package_n
> 
> 'purge' just in case a replacement package should use an identical
> global configuration.
> 
> 
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