XCLIPBOARD(1)

👑 XCLIPBOARD(1) 👑

okay bestie, this is XCLIPBOARD(1) from the General Commands Manual, and the program is xclipboard — literally the X clipboard client. no cap, it's giving clipboard scrapbook energy 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

xclipboard — X clipboard client ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

xclipboard [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -w ] [ -nw ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so xclipboard is the program used to collect and display text selections that are sent to the CLIPBOARD by other clients. it is typically used to save CLIPBOARD selections for later use. it stores each CLIPBOARD selection as a separate string, and each of those strings can be selected. periodt.

each time CLIPBOARD is asserted by another application, xclipboard transfers the contents of that selection to a new buffer and displays it in the text window. iconic. slay. but listen: buffers are never automatically deleted, so you'll want to use the delete button to get rid of useless items. the way that clutter will pile up if you don't 😭

since xclipboard uses a Text Widget to display the contents of the clipboard, text sent to the CLIPBOARD may be re-selected for use in other applications. xclipboard also responds to requests for the CLIPBOARD selection from other clients by sending the entire contents of the currently displayed buffer. main character clipboard behavior fr fr.

an xclipboard window has the following buttons across the top:

• quit — when this button is pressed, xclipboard exits. bye bestie 👋
• delete — when this button is pressed, the current buffer is deleted and the next one displayed.
• new — creates a new buffer with no contents. useful in constructing a new CLIPBOARD selection by hand.
• save — displays a File Save dialog box. pressing the Accept button saves the currently displayed buffer to the file specified in the text field.
• next — displays the next buffer in the list.
• previous — displays the previous buffer.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

the xclipboard program accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options as well as the following:

• -w — this option indicates that lines of text that are too long to be displayed on one line in the clipboard should wrap around to the following lines.
• -nw — this option indicates that long lines of text should not wrap around. this is the default behavior. lowkey the standard vibe.

🎀 WIDGETS 🎀

in order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which compose xclipboard. in the notation below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure. the widget class name is given first, followed by the widget instance name.

XClipboard  xclipboard
        Form  form
                Command  Quit
                Command  delete
                Command  new
                Command  Save
                Command  next
                Command  prev
                Label  index
                Text  text
        TransientShell  fileDialogShell
                Dialog  fileDialog
                        Label  label
                        Command  accept
                        Command  cancel
                        Text value
        TransientShell  failDialogShell
                Dialog  failDialog
                        Label  label
                        Command  continue

📤 SENDING/RETRIEVING CLIPBOARD CONTENTS 📥

text is copied to the clipboard whenever a client asserts ownership of the CLIPBOARD selection. text is copied from the clipboard whenever a client requests the contents of the CLIPBOARD selection. examples of event bindings that a user may wish to include in a resource configuration file to use the clipboard are:

*VT100.Translations: #override \
        <Btn3Up>:       select-end(CLIPBOARD) \n\
        <Btn2Up>:       insert-selection(PRIMARY,CLIPBOARD) \n\
        <Btn2Down>:     ignore ()

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

X(7), xcutsel(1), xterm(1), individual client documentation for how to make a selection and send it to the CLIPBOARD.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number.
• XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XClipboard — specifies required resources.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

• Ralph R. Swick, DEC/MIT Project Athena
• Chris D. Peterson, MIT X Consortium
• Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

okay that's the whole manual, bestie — this page is serving X Version 11 and xclipboard 1.1.5 energy, no date in the footer but the receipts are right there 💅✨🫶