Xclip -out -selection clipboard > file.txt Something about my “middle mouse button” which is something I have on relatively few of the mismatched menagerie of mice that my computers use.Īnyway, the argument I need to actually use to work with the clipboard content for normal apps accessed using the copy paste conventions of the non-X11 world and laptops without a “middle button”, is There is some whole parallel copy-paste system that I do no care about and which is not in my muscle memory and I will therefore never use. Or somewhere else I do not know how to retrieve it from because I am not 7ee+ hack0rz. The command is xclip, which per default copies your data into pneumatic pipes, Easy …and yet! Needlessly doesn’t do what you expect!
