Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does, not show up in Clipman

[Raphael Groner]

Hi Phil,

your issue sounds somehow like a RFE for Clipman to monitor also for 
some commands from cli mode, but I do not know how difficult the 
implementation is therefore, maybe it's technically impossible. 
Technical background: Vim has its own clipboard manager in use that does 
not know anything about running Xorg (or Wayland) applications, so I 
guess the own clipboard of vi as in cli mode is used. Does it work if 
you select text with the mouse and copy by help from context menu entry 
or the menu of the terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal)?

Did you check upstream for any existing issue? Otherwise, you should 
file a RFE in rhbz and as well to upstream of Clipman (the latter is the 
generally preferred way).

You could also try with GPaste (based on Gtk as well) or Qlipper (Qt 
based) as alternatives to Clipman.

R.


Am 31.07.2015 um 14:00 schrieb xfce-request at lists.fedoraproject.org:
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:23:16 +1000
> From: Philip Rhoades<phil at pricom.com.au>
> To:xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Vim commands for copying to system clipboard but text does
> 	not show	up in Clipman
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> People,
>
> In Vim, these commands are supposed to copy text to the system clipboard
> - but the text does not show up in Clipman:
>
>     "+yy
>
>     "*yy
>
> - why doesn't this work?
>
> In fact, rather than copying the current line as above, I want to copy
> the text of a whole file which is not conveniently done by clicking and
> dragging the mouse . . but I can't even get it to work on one line . .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.