wxpaste(1)

💖 wxpaste — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the wxpaste(1) page from the General Commands Manual. this is the little unix girly who pastes stuff to your terminal. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wxpaste — output a cutbuffer to stdout

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wxpaste [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically wxpaste takes whatever is chilling inside the cutbuffer you point at, and dumps its contents straight to stdout. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's iconic, she serves 💅

and if you don't tell her which cutbuffer you want? no worries babe, she just defaults to cutbuffer 0. main character energy, zero decisions required ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --cutbuffer number — tells her to paste from this specific cutbuffer instead of the default 0. like, "bestie, not that one, this one" 💁
• -display display-name — says which display wxpaste should go looking at to find the data you want pasted. pick your screen, queen 👑
• --help — prints a help message with the list of options. the classic "what do i do" button, we love her 🫶
• --selection [selection-name] — pulls the data from the named selection instead. and here's the tea: if cutting from the selection fails, she'll fall back to using the cutbuffer. the default value for the selection name is PRIMARY 🌟
• --version — prints the version of Window Maker that this program comes from. show me the lore ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so listen, there's a little quirk. when you use --selection without a selection name, that option has to be the last one. like, dead last. no cap. the syntax could be cleaned up, but backwards compatibility said "absolutely not" and honestly? respect 😭

also: INCR and MULTIPLE selection types are not handled. not even a little. fr fr, only simple text selections get handled — which honestly should be enough for most uses of a utility such as this 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

wxcopy(1), wmaker(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>.

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's dated March 1998 and it's page wxpaste(1) of the General Commands Manual — go paste something iconic, mwah 🎀✨