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There are 2 kind of clipboards on my os (manjaro i3). Xclip, which keeps the last selected text, and the regular clipboard which must be explicitly copied.
I have noticed urxvt copies selected text in both clipboard, but I only need it to copy to xclip instead of the regular clipboard. Is there a way to do this?

Edit: my Xresources

URxvt.clipboard.autocopy: false URxvt.font: 9x15,xft:TerminessTTFNerdFontMono ! URxvt.font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 ! URxvt.bold.font: -xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 URxvt.depth: 32 URxvt.background: [100]#222D31 URxvt*scrollBar: false URxvt*mouseWheelScrollPage: false URxvt*cursorBlink: true URxvt*background: black URxvt*foreground: grey URxvt*saveLines: 5000 ! URxvt*inheritPixmap: true ! URxvt*transparent: true ! URxvt*shading: 138 URxvt*transparent: true URxvt*shading: 20 URxvt.iso14755: false URxvt.keysym.Shift-Control-V: eval:paste_clipboard URxvt.keysym.Shift-Control-C: eval:selection_to_clipboard URxvt.keysym.Control-Left: \033[1;5D URxvt.keysym.Shift-Control-Left: \033[1;6D URxvt.keysym.Control-Right: \033[1;5C URxvt.keysym.Shift-Control-Right: \033[1;6C URxvt.keysym.Control-Up: \033[1;5A URxvt.keysym.Shift-Control-Up: \033[1;6A URxvt.keysym.Control-Down: \033[1;5B URxvt.keysym.Shift-Control-Down: \033[1;6B URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,font-size,clipboard,selection-to-clipboard ! URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: perl:clipboard:copy ! URxvt.keysym.M-v: perl:clipboard:paste ! URxvt.keysym.M-C-v: perl:clipboard:paste_escaped ! URxvt*termName: string ! URxvt*geometry: geometry ! URxvt*chdir: string ! URxvt*loginShell: boolean ! URxvt*multiClickTime: number ! URxvt*jumpScroll: boolean ! URxvt*skipScroll: boolean ! URxvt*pastableTabs: boolean ! URxvt*scrollstyle: plain ! URxvt*scrollBar_right: boolean ! URxvt*scrollBar_floating: true ! URxvt*scrollBar_align: mode ! URxvt*thickness: number ! URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: boolean ! URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: boolean ! URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: boolean ! URxvt*tintColor: !7DA55 ! URxvt*blurRadius: HxV ! URxvt*fading: number ! URxvt*fadeColor: color ! URxvt*utmpInhibit: boolean ! URxvt*urgentOnBell: boolean ! URxvt*visualBell: boolean ! URxvt*mapAlert: boolean ! URxvt*meta8: boolean ! URxvt*tripleclickwords: boolean ! URxvt*insecure: boolean ! URxvt*cursorUnderline: boolean ! URxvt*pointerBlank: boolean ! URxvt*color0: color ! URxvt*color1: color ! URxvt*color2: color ! URxvt*color3: color ! URxvt*color4: color ! URxvt*color5: color ! URxvt*color6: color ! URxvt*color7: color ! URxvt*color8: color ! URxvt*color9: color ! URxvt*color10: color ! URxvt*color11: color ! URxvt*color12: color ! URxvt*color13: color ! URxvt*color14: color ! URxvt*color15: color ! URxvt*colorBD: color ! URxvt*colorIT: color ! URxvt*colorUL: color ! URxvt*colorRV: color ! URxvt*underlineColor: color ! URxvt*scrollColor: color ! URxvt*troughColor: color ! URxvt*highlightColor: color ! URxvt*highlightTextColor: color ! URxvt*cursorColor: color ! URxvt*cursorColor2: color ! URxvt*pointerColor: color ! URxvt*pointerColor2: color ! URxvt*borderColor: color ! URxvt*iconFile: file ! URxvt*font: fontname ! URxvt*boldFont: fontname ! URxvt*italicFont: fontname ! URxvt*boldItalicFont: fontname ! URxvt*intensityStyles: boolean ! URxvt*inputMethod: name ! URxvt*preeditType: style ! URxvt*imLocale: string ! URxvt*imFont: fontname ! URxvt*title: string ! URxvt*iconName: string ! URxvt*buffered: boolean ! URxvt*depth: number ! URxvt*visual: number ! URxvt*transient-for: windowid ! URxvt*override-redirect: boolean ! URxvt*hold: boolean ! URxvt*externalBorder: number ! URxvt*internalBorder: number ! URxvt*borderLess: true ! URxvt*lineSpace: number ! URxvt*letterSpace: number ! URxvt*skipBuiltinGlyphs: boolean ! URxvt*pointerBlankDelay: number ! URxvt*backspacekey: string ! URxvt*deletekey: string ! URxvt*print-pipe: string ! URxvt*modifier: modifier ! URxvt*cutchars: string ! URxvt*answerbackString: string ! URxvt*secondaryScreen: boolean ! URxvt*secondaryScroll: boolean ! URxvt*perl-lib: string ! URxvt*perl-eval: perl-eval ! URxvt*perl-ext-common: string ! URxvt*perl-ext: string ! URxvt*iso14755: boolean ! URxvt*iso14755_52: boolean ! URxvt*xrm: string ! URxvt*keysym.sym: keysym ! URxvt*background.border: boolean ! URxvt*background.expr: string ! URxvt*background.interval: seconds ! URxvt*bell-command: string ! URxvt*kuake.hotkey: string ! URxvt*matcher.button: string ! URxvt*matcher.launcher: string ! URxvt*matcher.launcher.*: string ! URxvt*matcher.pattern.*: string ! URxvt*matcher.rend.*: string ! URxvt*remote-clipboard.fetch: string ! URxvt*remote-clipboard.store: string ! URxvt*searchable-scrollback: string ! URxvt*selection-autotransform.*: string ! URxvt*selection-pastebin.cmd: string ! URxvt*selection-pastebin.url: string ! URxvt*selection.pattern-0: string ! URxvt*tab-bg: colour ! URxvt*tab-fg: colour ! URxvt*tabbar-bg: colour ! URxvt*tabbar-fg: colour ! URxvt*url-launcher: string !URxvt.font:xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=28
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  • sidestep the problem by using tmux maybe? Commented Jan 10, 2023 at 22:19
  • posted my Xresources. Weirdly, on my other manjaro instllation, it works as expected Commented Jan 11, 2023 at 13:19

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URxvt.clipboard.autocopy: false
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  • didn't work, stil same behviour Commented Jan 11, 2023 at 13:17
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    @user2741831 - it should work if you also remove the ,selection-to-clipboard part which is at the end of the URxvt.perl-ext-common:... line. Run xrdb -load .Xresources after that and then restart urxvt Commented Jan 11, 2023 at 14:02
  • that did the trick, thanks Commented Jan 11, 2023 at 14:30

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