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From: Flancian <0@flancia.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:12:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Autopush.

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 - [[week 16]]
 - [[garment design with gans]]
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+# clipboard management
+One of my pet peeves while managing computers over VNC, like I do currently to communicate with [[nox]] mostly, is [[clipboard management]].
+
+I've managed to do clipboard transfer [[nox]] -> laptop easily; I call it xclip-in:
+
+```
+ssh nox 'xclip -o -selection clipboard -d :0' | xclip -i -selection clipboard
+```
+
+But for some reason the other direction eludes me. That is, I can't seem to 'push' the clipboard from my laptop to nox. The following looks like it should work, but it doesn't; xclip -i just hangs forever:
+
+```
+xclip -o -selection clipboard | ssh nox 'xclip -i -selection clipboard -d :0'
+```
+
+If I strace the `xclip -i` call, I see a read() that contains the clipboard I'm trying to transfer -- and then an exit with 0. But the command never finishes.
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