Issues with Ubuntu ... ?

[goessner]

When using clipboardy with

 Operating system: _Ubuntu 16.04 LTS_
   VSCode version: _ 1.20.1_
 Markdown+Math version: 2.1.0

by code ...

if (!cb) cb = require('clipboardy');
     cb.write(clipTmpl(mdit.render(doc.getText())))
       .then(()=>vscode.window.showInformationMessage('Html copied to clipboard!'),
             ()=>vscode.window.showInformationMessage('Html copying to clipboard failed!'));

... it says 'Html copying to clipboard failed!', whereas with all other operating systems it seems to work well. See ...

goessner/mdmath#44
goessner/mdmath#36

Is it simply so, that Ubuntu is not supported by clipboardy?

thanks

[LCAR979]

@goessner It turns out that you must install dependency to make mdmath work. Please see this pull request and the related issue
And I have tested, after installing xsel, Clip Markdown+Math to HTML works perfectly and has a nice output. So you mdmath issue now has a fix.

@sindresorhus Since the problem still exists, is it better to recover that line in readme.md?

[floatdrop]

Clipboardy ships with precompiled binary for Linux - so you do not need ‘xsel’ installed.

@goessner can you post full error message from clipboardy?

[goessner]

Thanks for having solved this issue.
@floatdrop: What does ' ... ships with precompiled binary for Linux ... ' mean?
In mdmath's package.json is clipboardy listed with all its dependencies. So do I need to loist 'xsel' here explicitely somehow?

How do you want me to post the full error message ... as a simple link ?

[floatdrop]

What does ' ... ships with precompiled binary for Linux ... ' mean?

We literally ship xsel inside npm package – https://github.com/sindresorhus/clipboardy/blob/master/fallbacks/linux/xsel

How do you want me to post the full error message ... as a simple link ?

Something like this should do the trick:

if (!cb) cb = require('clipboardy');
     cb.write(clipTmpl(mdit.render(doc.getText())))
       .then(()=>vscode.window.showInformationMessage('Html copied to clipboard!'),
             (err)=>vscode.window.showInformationMessage(err.message));

[goessner]

.. it works now ..

#36

thanks