id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
4133	[PATCH] Allow running clipboard commands if DISPLAY is not set	devzero	andrew_b	"Hello!

I ran into a restriction related to the options clipboard_store and clipboard_paste.

I'm currently working on a script that brings a transparent clipboard support to any application that supports executing arbitrary commands on the copy and paste actions in the same way as mc does. It also works for applications running on a virtual terminal and falls back to the file-based clipboard storage if an X server is not running or cannot be detected.

Here is the script:
https://github.com/sde-gui/sde-common-clipboard/blob/master/sde-common-clipboard

I noticed that mc refuses running clipboard_store and clipboard_paste commands if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set. This limitation didn't seem to be explicitly stated in the documentation (especially in the russian manual page -- it lacks any mention of X11 regarding clipboard at all), so I had to check the source code out to make sure that was the case.

My suggestion is to bring a new configuration variable controlling this behavior. The attached patch implements a new option clipboard_force_no_display allowing to override the default behavior.
"	enhancement	closed	minor	4.8.26	mc-core	master	fixed					merged	committed-master