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|    Carlos E. R. to Maria Sophia    |
|    Re: PSA: Clipboard differences between C    |
|    15 Feb 26 22:04:34    |
      XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system       From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 2026-02-15 20:49, Maria Sophia wrote:       > Carlos E. R. wrote:              ...              > But, running a quick search on your behalf, it may be that on X11, the       > closest equivalent may be xclip or xsel.       > Apparently both can list the clipboard formats the same way       > wl-paste does on Wayland.       >       > For example, with xclip you can run:       >       > xclip -selection clipboard -t TARGETS -o       >       > That prints the list of offered clipboard formats under X11. It seems,       > to me, to be the same idea as wl-paste -l, but       > just for the X11 clipboard instead of the Wayland clipboard.       >       > If you run that command after copying text from Firefox, then run it       > again after copying the same text from Chrome, you should see the same       > pattern that Lawrence showed (assuming the original copy had HTML).              Ok, that is easy to do.              Using the same selection as in my previous test.              Firefox:              cer@Laicolasse:~> xclip -selection clipboard -t TARGETS -o       TIMESTAMP       TARGETS       MULTIPLE       SAVE_TARGETS       text/html       text/_moz_htmlcontext       text/_moz_htmlinfo       UTF8_STRING       COMPOUND_TEXT       TEXT       STRING       text/plain;charset=utf-8       text/plain       text/x-moz-url-priv       cer@Laicolasse:~>              Chrome              cer@Laicolasse:~> xclip -selection clipboard -t TARGETS -o       TIMESTAMP       TARGETS       SAVE_TARGETS       MULTIPLE       STRING       TEXT       UTF8_STRING       text/plain;charset=utf-8       text/plain       text/html       chromium/x-internal-source-rfh-token       chromium/x-source-url       cer@Laicolasse:~>                     ...              --       Cheers,        Carlos E.R.        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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