xwinclip(1)xwinclip(1)NAMExwinclip - An X11 and Windows clipboard integration tool
SYNOPSISxwinclip [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTIONxwinclip is a tool for copying and pasting text between the Windows and
X11 clipboard systems.
xwinclip watches for updates to either clipboard and copies data
between them when either one is updated.
xwinclip monitors the X PRIMARY and CLIBPOARD selections for changes in
ownership, and makes the contents of the most recent one to change
available to paste from the Windows clipboard.
It also monitors the contents of the Windows clipboard for changes,
taking ownership of the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections, and making
the contents of the Windows clipboard available in them.
Note well: The XWin(1) X server has internal clipboard integration that
is enabled by default. Do NOT run xwinclip unless XWin(1) has been
started with the -noclipboard option.
OPTIONSxwinclip accepts the following optional command line switches:
-display [display]
Specifies the X server display to connect to.
-nounicodeclipboard
Do not use unicode text on the clipboard.
-noprimary
Do not monitor the PRIMARY selection.
SEE ALSOXWin(1)BUGS
Only text clipboard contents are supported.
The INCR (Incrememntal transfer) clipboard protocol for clipboard con‐
tents larger than the maximum size of an X request is not supported.
Some X clients, notably ones written in Tcl/Tk, do not re-assert owner‐
ship of the PRIMARY selection or update it's timestamp when it's con‐
tents change, which currently prevents xwinclip from correctly noticing
that the PRIMARY selection's contents have changed.
Windows clipboard rendering is synchronous in the WM_RENDER*FORMAT mes‐
sage (that is, we must have placed the contents onto the clipboard by
the time we return from processing this message), but we must wait for
the X client which owns the selection to convert the selection to our
requested format. This is currently achieved using a fixed timeout of
one second.
The XWin(1) server should indicate somehow (by placing an atom on the
root window?) that it is running with it's internal clipboard integra‐
tion enabled, and xwinclip should notice this and exit with an appro‐
priate error.
Probably many other bugs.
CONFORMING TO
ICCCM (Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual) 2.0
AUTHORS
Contributors to xwinclip include Benjamin Riefenstahl, Roland Cassard,
Brian Genisio, Colin Harrison, Harold L Hunt II, Matsuzaki Kensuke, Jon
Turney, Chris Twiner and Jeremy Wilkins.
X Version 11 xorg-server 1.15.0 xwinclip(1)