README.md (775B)
1 clipnotify is a simple program that, using the 2 [XFIXES](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/fixesproto/plain/fixesproto.txt) 3 extension to X11, waits until a new selection is available and then exits. 4 5 It was primarily designed for [clipmenu](https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu), to 6 avoid polling for new selections. 7 8 Here's how it's intended to be used: 9 10 while clipnotify; do 11 [an event happened, do something with the selection] 12 done 13 14 clipnotify doesn't try to print anything about the contents of the selection, 15 it just exits when it changes. This is intentional -- X11's selection API is 16 verging on the insane, and there are plenty of others who have already lost 17 their sanity to bring us xclip/xsel/etc. Use one of those tools to complement 18 clipnotify.