---
name: "wxpaste"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "windowmaker"
version: "0.96.0-5"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wxpaste"
---

# wxpaste(1)

output a cutbuffer to stdout

## NAME

wxpaste - output a cutbuffer to stdout

## SYNOPSIS

**wxpaste** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**wxpaste** outputs the contents of the specified cutbuffer to stdout. If no cutbuffer is specified, the cutbuffer 0 will be used as default.

## OPTIONS

- **--cutbuffer** *number*

  The data will be pasted from the specified cutbuffer, instead of the default 0.

- **-display** *display-name*

  Specifies the display where wxpaste should look for the data to be pasted.

- **--help**

  print a help message with the list of options.

- **--selection** \[*selection-name*\]

  The data will be copied from the named selection. If cutting from the selection fails, the cutbuffer will be used. The default value for the selection name is PRIMARY.

- **--version**

  print the version of Window Maker from which the program comes.

## BUGS

When used without a selection name, the *--selection* option must be the last one. The syntax could be cleaned, but backwards compatibility prevents that...

*INCR* and *MULTIPLE* selection types are not handled. Actually, only simple text selections are handled, which should be enough for most uses of a utility such as this.

## SEE ALSO

[**wxcopy**(1)](/wxcopy/1.md), [**wmaker**(1)](/wmaker/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Marcelo Magallon \<mmagallo@debian.org\>.

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima \<kojima@windowmaker.info\>.