---
name: "cutsel"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "autocutsel"
version: "0.10.1-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cutsel"
---

# cutsel(1)

show information about the X clipboard and the cutbuffer in sync

## NAME

cutsel - show information about the X clipboard and the cutbuffer in sync

## SYNOPSIS

**cutsel** \[-selection *selection\_name*\] \[-cutbuffer *number*\] \[-debug\] \[-verbose\] {cut\|sel}

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cutsel** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

- **cutsel \[*options*\] cut**

  shows the contents of the cut buffer and

- **cutsel \[*options*\] sel**

  shows the owner of the selection.

## OPTIONS

- **-selection, -select, -sel, -s {CLIPBOARD\|PRIMARY}**

  Specify which selection to use. Default is CLIPBOARD.

- **-cutbuffer \<number\>**

  (Details of this parameter unknown.)

- **-debug, -d**

  Run with debugging mode.

- **-verbose, -v**

  Be more verbose. Reports the version and announces synchronizations.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Elmar S. Heeb \<elmar@heebs.ch\> for the **Debian** system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.