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xwinclip(1)							   xwinclip(1)

NAME
       xwinclip - An X11 and Windows clipboard integration tool

SYNOPSIS
       xwinclip [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
       xwinclip is a tool for copying and pasting text between the Windows and
       X11 clipboard systems.

       xwinclip watches for  updates  to  either  clipboard  and  copies  data
       between them when either one is updated.

       xwinclip monitors the X PRIMARY and CLIBPOARD selections for changes in
       ownership, and makes the contents of the	 most  recent  one  to	change
       available to paste from the Windows clipboard.

       It  also	 monitors  the	contents of the Windows clipboard for changes,
       taking ownership of the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD  selections,  and	making
       the contents of the Windows clipboard available in them.

       Note well: The XWin(1) X server has internal clipboard integration that
       is enabled by default.  Do NOT run xwinclip  unless  XWin(1)  has  been
       started with the -noclipboard option.

OPTIONS
       xwinclip accepts the following optional command line switches:

       -display [display]
	       Specifies the X server display to connect to.

       -nounicodeclipboard
	       Do not use unicode text on the clipboard.

       -noprimary
	       Do not monitor the PRIMARY selection.

SEE ALSO
       XWin(1)

BUGS
       Only text clipboard contents are supported.

       The  INCR (Incrememntal transfer) clipboard protocol for clipboard con‐
       tents larger than the maximum size of an X request is not supported.

       Some X clients, notably ones written in Tcl/Tk, do not re-assert owner‐
       ship  of	 the PRIMARY selection or update it's timestamp when it's con‐
       tents change, which currently prevents xwinclip from correctly noticing
       that the PRIMARY selection's contents have changed.

       Windows clipboard rendering is synchronous in the WM_RENDER*FORMAT mes‐
       sage (that is, we must have placed the contents onto the	 clipboard  by
       the  time we return from processing this message), but we must wait for
       the X client which owns the selection to convert the selection  to  our
       requested  format.  This is currently achieved using a fixed timeout of
       one second.

       The XWin(1) server should indicate somehow (by placing an atom  on  the
       root  window?) that it is running with it's internal clipboard integra‐
       tion enabled, and xwinclip should notice this and exit with  an	appro‐
       priate error.

       Probably many other bugs.

CONFORMING TO
       ICCCM (Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual) 2.0

AUTHORS
       Contributors  to xwinclip include Benjamin Riefenstahl, Roland Cassard,
       Brian Genisio, Colin Harrison, Harold L Hunt II, Matsuzaki Kensuke, Jon
       Turney, Chris Twiner and Jeremy Wilkins.

X Version 11		      xorg-server 1.15.0		   xwinclip(1)

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