Actually I managed to solve this -- honestly I had been working on it for a long time before writing to the list, funny how that can happen!
I find that the combination of the following works; neither alone is enough: xsel --clear --primary (same as xsel -c) xcb -s 0-7 < /dev/null (actually xcb -s 0 < /dev/null suffices) Hope this helps someone somewhere sometime... Kind Reg'ds, Ras On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Ras Far <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having difficulty clearing the clipboard/selection/cutbuffer. Any > combination of xsel -[cd] -[psb] fails to clear a selection made in > xterm using standard left-drag. > > I can SET the selection with xsel -i but it cannot be empty, so the > best I can do is replace the current selection with a space. Not > terrible, been doing that manually for a long while, after each > selection, since accidental pastes can be disastrous. But I'd like it > to be really empty, the way it is when first start X, prior to having > made any selections. > > I've also tried xclip, xcutsel, and changing the xterm > selectToClipboard resource to true... Even tried hacking xsel.c > source but had no luck there either! > > My system is Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686), twm, > X.Org X Server 1.10.1. > > Can anyone suggest what's going wrong with xsel -c/-d? > > Kind Reg'ds, > Ras _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
