Re: How to copy and paste from unity to emacs in the terminal version ?

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Kro Ly <mnmnmnmna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone but xsel doesn't seem to work and I have found no solution. 
> It say "xsel: can't open display: (null): success. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 using 
> the first console (ctrl + alt + f1).

Before running xclip or xsel, you might want to set the DISPLAY
environment to indicate the X display whose selection or clipboard you
want to access, e.g.:

$ DISPLAY=:0 xsel -o