xclip: -t: No such file or directory

[htfy96]

ERROR(shell error): Error running: xclip -t text/html -selection clipboard
xclip: -t: No such file or directory

I'm using xclip 0.12-4 on Arch Linux, and man xclip doesn't give out any information about -t. I guess -t is no longer supported in this version.

[chiphogg]

I've tried to find the xclip version control to see whether/when/why that option was removed, but I'm coming up empty. I found Arch's xclip page, which lists 0.12-4 as the current version, but its upstream link points to sourceforge, which only shows version 0.12.

Any ideas?

[htfy96]

According to its PKGBUILD, the binary on Arch(0.12-4 where 4 is pkgver which doesn't change source) is built from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip/files/xclip/0.12/xclip-0.12.tar.gz/download. I browsed through the source and didn't find anything about -t. Maybe your distribution made extra patch on it.

[dbarnett]

I see the --target option added in xclip r81: http://sourceforge.net/p/xclip/code/81/

[htfy96]

Hmm... That commit was done on 2010-04-30 while xlip-0.12 was released on 2009-09-27 and Arch only follows mainstream releases. It seems that xclip didn't have a release in the past 5 years.

[wsdjeg]

maybe you can try with xsel

[htfy96]

I have switched to xclip-svn in AUR, which works well. It would be better if this were mentioned in README.md.

[wsdjeg]

haven't used before,I install this proj just for neovim .By the way I am using fcixt's clipboard

[chiphogg]

Okay, let's figure out where we're at so we can fix this thing.

• Switching to xclip-svn in AUR gives a recent-enough xclip which has the -t option.
• xsel was suggested, but I don't see any way in the man page to specify HTML output. So I don't think it would be a viable alternative.

Does that sound about right?

If so, I think fixing up README.md should do it. We can add a section about installing xclip (right now it's an undeclared dependency -- oops!). That section can have install instructions for Ubuntu and Arch.

How does that sound?

[htfy96]

Great.

[chiphogg]

@htfy96, can you write some instructions here for how to switch to xclip-svn on Arch? I've never used Arch, so I don't know.

Then I can incorporate your instructions into the pull request. Or you can write the PR yourself if you want; let me know what you prefer.

[htfy96]

OK. I'll submit a pull request.