I'm building a command line tool in order to make some of my tasks more efficient. I need to be able to write content to the clipboard, but for some reason it's not working for me.
I've tried installing both xclip
and xsel
, but both have the same behavior: they can read/write to the clipboard fine, but I cannot access it from the main Ubuntu GUI.
I've also tried it in the terminal...
echo "hello" | xclip
Then if Ctrl+Shift+V, I get my original clipboard entry, not "hello". But, if I try to grab the content from xclip
, it works fine.
The main goal is get the content pastable into Firefox or whatever other GUI-based programs I'm using.