I’ve had a script I’ve been relying on Linux for a few years that someone else wrote that pastes items for you – I use this to automatically add the date to file names or to expand emails from an abbreviation.
Recent attempts to use it have proved to be problematic and I can’t figure out why. Anyhow I replaced it today with xclip and it seems to have done the job – I’ve no idea why
xsel –input
hasn’t worked but the relevant xclip input has ಠ_ಠ
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