bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Parvesh Monu]

I don't know if it will help, but I found workaround to capture X-clipboard.

Since %x doesn't work with daemon, I used %i and passed X-clipboard's content using xsel. Like,

xdg-open "org-protocol://capture?template=h&body=`xsel`"

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 8:25 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

Parvesh Monu <parvesh.dhullmonu@gmail.com> writes:

> I have this template which captures clipboard content in file. It works fine when
> emacsclient is running, but if no client is running then server adds empty entry.
>
> (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
>        '("x" "Clips" entry (file+headline "/home/user/desktop/clips" "Clips")
>          "** %x" :immediate-finish t :prepend t))

I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly here -- but I think you're
saying that if you start "emacs --daemon", then that daemonised Emacs
can't communicate with the X clipboard?

I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural?  If you don't have
an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
access the clipboard, either.

I don't know how Org is talking to the clipboard, though.  Anybody?

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