CUTSEL(1)

💖 CUTSEL 💖

okay so bestie, you know how X11 has like a million different places to stash your copied text and it's all lowkey chaos? yeah. this is the little tool that peeks at all of it. it's cutsel, from the cutsel(1) manual, and it's giving clipboard detective energy 🕵️♀️✨

✨ NAME ✨

cutsel — show information about the X clipboard and the cutbuffer in sync 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cutsel [-selection selection_name] [-cutbuffer number] [-debug]
[-verbose] {cut|sel}

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this manual page documents briefly the cutsel command. briefly!! we're keeping it cute and concise, no cap 📝

and like, real talk — this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not one. nothing. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and honestly? iconic 💁♀️

now the two modes, bestie, pay attention:

• cutsel [options] cut — shows the contents of the cut buffer 🔥
• cutsel [options] sel — shows the owner of the selection 👑

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one of them shows you what's in there, the other shows you who's holding it. fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -selection, -select, -sel, -s {CLIPBOARD|PRIMARY} — specify which selection to use. the default is CLIPBOARD. (yes bestie, four whole ways to spell the same flag, they really said "we contain multitudes" 😌)
• -cutbuffer <number> — (details of this parameter unknown.) not me telling you we literally don't know what this one does 💀 the manpage itself says so, we're just being honest!
• -debug, -d — run with debugging mode. turn this on when you want to see everything 👀
• -verbose, -v — be more verbose. reports the version and announces synchronizations. it will literally tell you when stuff syncs up, like a little announcer 🎤✨

👑 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're feeling scholarly, bestie 📚

and that's the whole page!! this one shipped as part of autocutsel 0.9.0, dated 5 December 2007 — an absolute elder statesman of a release, and yet here we are, still reading it. respect the elders 💜✨ mwah, go copy something 💖