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unable to paste with xclip outside of terminal

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I am trying to copy from the terminal with xclip and paste it into the unity desktop environment into gedit text editor. I can copy and paste with xclip in terminal:

$ cat line-size.c | xclip

xclip -o > input5.txt

cat input5.txt

#include <stdio.h>

...

However, when I press control + v to paste into gedit, it only pastes the actual last thing I copied within unity desktop, such as something from firefox browser.

How can I paste in gui applications something I copied from terminal?

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answered 1 Year ago aslity · Accepted Answer

I think it is just a matter of understanding the different selection clipboards used by the xclip utility

   -selection

          specify  which X selection to use, options are "primary" to use

          XA_PRIMARY (default), "secondary" for  XA_SECONDARY  or  "clip‐

          board" for XA_CLIPBOARD

When you do cat line-size.c | xclip the default behaviour is to copy to the primary X selection buffer - to paste from that buffer, you need to use a mouse middle-click instead of the Ctrl+v combination.

To copy into the clipboard instead, so that you can paste with Ctrl+v, you would need to do

cat line-size.c | xclip -selection clipboard