AUTOCUTSEL(1)

💖 AUTOCUTSEL(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because autocutsel is about to fix the most annoying problem you didn't even know you had 👑 it lives in the General Commands Manual section of the manual, and its whole entire job is keeping your X clipboard and your cutbuffer in sync. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

autocutsel — keep the X clipboard and the cutbuffer in sync 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

autocutsel [-selection selection_name] [-cutbuffer number] [-debug]
[-verbose] [-fork] [-pause milliseconds] [-buttonup]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page is a lil quick-and-dirty rundown of the autocutsel command. it's giving "briefly documents" energy, and honestly? valid.

fun lore: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program doesn't have a manual page. not me being the only source of truth here 😭 iconic of Debian fr fr.

Now the actual tea ☕ — autocutsel tracks changes in the server's cutbuffer and the clipboard selection. like a little guardian angel for your copy-paste:

• when the clipboard gets changed → it updates the cutbuffer
• when the cutbuffer gets changed → it owns the clipboard selection

and the cutbuffer and clipboard selection are always synchronized. periodt. 💅

and here's the part that makes it main character: since the VNC client synchronizes the Windows' clipboard and the server's cutbuffer, all three "clipboards" are always kept synchronized. so:

• you copy some text in Windows → the cutbuffer and the clipboard selection get updated ✨
• you copy text on the server, using either the cutbuffer or the clipboard selection → the Windows's clipboard is always updated 💖

all three, in lockstep, forever. slay.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -selection, -select, -sel, -s {CLIPBOARD|PRIMARY} — specify which selection to use. default is CLIPBOARD. yes, it has four whole names, she contains multitudes 💅
• -cutbuffer <number> — (details of this parameter unknown.) that's it, that's the whole description, we simply do not know 🙈
• -debug, -d — run with debugging mode. for when you need to see everything 👀
• -verbose, -v — be more verbose. it reports the version and announces synchronizations. she's a talker, we love her 🗣️
• -fork, -f — run as a daemon program in the background. this is recommended when used from an X startup script 🧚
• -pause, -p <milliseconds> — wait some milliseconds before owning the selection ⏳
• -buttonup — get the selection only when the button 1 is not pressed. this may help with OpenOffice Writer 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Elmar S. Heeb <elmar@heebs.ch> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 🫶

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it if you want, bestie, it's right there 📖

lowkey the sweetest part? this whole thing is autocutsel version 0.9.0, dated 5 December 2007 — and it still hits different. no notes. 💖✨

periodt. go sync your clipboards, queen. 💅👑