A "User Experience Manifesto" - for a small command-line utility! https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard/wiki/User-Experience-Manifesto Makes me wonder if the command line could become more mainstream if more tools were trying to be user-friendly.

I don't understand the "no X11 dependency". I look in the source and immediately see:

#if defined(X11_AVAILABLE)
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#endif

Now we just need meta-discoverability—how do tool authors know what things to do to be discoverable and good citizens? (Not sarcastic).

@Kartik Agaram My understanding is that “no X11 dependency” means “works without X11” and “can be used by someone who doesn’t know what X11 is”.

I'm not sure how, though. Unless it's X11 or Wayland, I'm not sure how you'd access the clipboard on any Unix system.

That ‘clipboard’ tool implements its own clipboard in the file system. If you have X11, data is copied to the X11 clipboard as well.

Oh! So it can only interop with itself?!

If you don't have X11, yes. There's nothing else it could interop with!

Oh sorry, I missed half of your previous comment.

[moved] The secret here is what I currently call 0D (Zero Dependency - AKA Parallelism: The Good Part). A command line uses FIFOs, not LIFOs, to string commands together. Nested function calls are not the same as pipelines. Functions use The Stack (LIFO), pipelines use Queues (FIFO).