Re: [RP] new commands putsel and getsel

[Joe Corneli]

   Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

   > Is there a way to use these commands from within a program (emacs)
   > that's running remotely when my ratpoison is running locally?

   If you had a copy of ratpoison on the remote machine, you could run:

   DISPLAY=... ratpoison -c getsel

   from the remote emacs and it'll get the selection off the X server.


How do I know what ... is supposed to be?

I tried

 DISPLAY=:0 ratpoison -c getsel

but that didn't seem to work.
 
 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
 Xlib: No protocol specified
 
 Can't open display

I guess I guessed wrong? (Unless bychance this is a firewall issue?)

Joe