Doesn't work with images

[BanchouBoo]

Doesn't work with images

[phillbush]

Copying does work between applications, guess I'll close this then. Any recommendations for an xclip alternative?

The only X11 clients that work as source and destination for the clipboard are xclip and xsel.
xsel, however, seems to not support targets provided by the user.

I want to expand xclipd in the future with two more commands, one for writing into the clipboard, and the other for reading from the clipboard, thus providing replacements for xclip -in and xclip -out. Those commands will implement the full ICCCM specification, and thus work with other programs.

However, I have implemented into xclipd a solution to work with xclip and other clients which do not fully implement the ICCCM specification. More information in the commit message.

[phillbush]

Hi, xclipd is now included with a few other utilities, two of which, xclipin and xclipout can replace xclip -in and xclip -out commands.
xclipd still works with not fully ICCCM-compliant applications such as xclip.

[phillbush]

I can copy from Firefox into GIMP with no problems.
I faced a problem, however, on X11 clients that do not support the MULTIPLE target, like xclip (xclipd needs that the clipboard source supports the MULTIPLE target).

What are the clipboard source application (the one you Ctrl-C) and the clipboard destination application (the one you Ctrl-V)?

[BanchouBoo]

Using xclip with the image/png target to copy, pasting into Discord and GIMP both did not work.

[phillbush]

Yeah, as I supposed: xclip.
It lacks support for the MULTIPLE target.
There's an issue there for that.

If copying images works between other applications (say from Firefox to GIMP) but not from xclip, then that's not a bug on xclipd side, but on xclip's. (Although they are named alike, those projects are not related).

I can make a workaround for clients that does not support the MULTIPLE target, but that's a hack. The optimal solution is to all X11 clients engaging into the clipboard selection mechanism to implement the ICCCM selection protocol.

[BanchouBoo]

Copying does work between applications, guess I'll close this then. Any recommendations for an xclip alternative?

[BanchouBoo]

Works now, thanks!