From: Olof-Joachim Frahm <olof@macrolet.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:51:26 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Elaborate more on the copying part.
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Elaborate more on the copying part.
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diff --git a/x11-clipboard.post b/x11-clipboard.post
index 4c6f264..51b4143 100644
--- a/x11-clipboard.post
+++ b/x11-clipboard.post
@@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ exchanges clipboard and primary selection, so no more awkward pasting and
 selecting with the mouse in order to get the correct string in the correct
 location.
 
+    # to switch clipboard and primary selection
+    PRIMARY=`xsel -op`; xsel -ob | xsel -ip; echo "$PRIMARY" | xsel -ib
+
+    # to paste from primary selection in tmux
+    bind p run "tmux set-buffer \"$(xsel -op)\"; tmux paste-buffer
+
+Other useful keybindings in tmux would copying into the clipboard etc. and
+there is a useful [SO
+post](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77355/tmux-xclip-copy-no-longer-working/77587#77587)
+explaning that.
+
 As before this is public at the
 [customisations](https://github.com/Ferada/dwm/tree/customisations) branch on
 Github; I still have to upload the tmux part though.