clipmenu

commit 8538e01e5c3dff35172789e946d1a60df4ed658b
parent 7c34ace1fbab76eb1c1dc9b30dd4ac1a7fe4b90b
Author: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Date:   Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:47:39 +0100

readme: Add information about $DISPLAY

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@@ -9,10 +9,21 @@ clipmenu is a simple clipboard manager using [dmenu][] (or [rofi][] with
 
 # Usage
 
+## clipmenud
+
 Start `clipmenud`, then run `clipmenu` to select something to put on the
 clipboard. For systemd users, a user service called `clipmenud` is packaged as
 part of the project.
 
+For those using a systemd unit and not using a desktop environment which does
+it automatically, you must import `$DISPLAY` so that `clipmenud` knows which X
+server to use. For example, in your `~/.xinitrc` do this prior to launching
+clipmenud:
+
+    systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY
+
+## clipmenu
+
 You may wish to bind a shortcut in your window manager to launch `clipmenu`.
 
 All args passed to clipmenu are transparently dispatched to dmenu. That is, if