-selection PRIMARY - no effect?

[AladW]

According to the README:

By default, autocutsel synchronizes the CLIPBOARD selection. You may want to use
the PRIMARY selection instead, if your applications use Motif or another toolkit
not using the CLIPBOARD. 

As I understand it, running autcutsel -selection PRIMARY makes sure CLIPBOARD is synchronized to PRIMARY. However, this doesn't seem to work:

archie@thinkpad ~ % echo $TERM
xterm-256color
archie@thinkpad ~ % autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork
archie@thinkpad ~ % echo foo | xsel -i -b
archie@thinkpad ~ % bar # Shift+Insert

Adding -verbose -debug to the command gives no output with the above, except the version number:

archie@thinkpad ~ % autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -verbose -debug
autocutsel v0.10.0

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sharad ~ > echo primary | xclip -i
sharad ~ > echo clipboard | xclip -sel c
sharad ~ > xclip -o
primary
sharad ~ > xclip -o -sel c
clipboard
sharad ~ > autocutsel -fork && autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork
sharad ~ > echo test | xclip -i
sharad ~ > xclip -o
test
sharad ~ > xclip -o -sel c
test

You need to use both "autocutsel -fork" and "autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork"

[AladW]

Except I don't want primary synced to clipboard. Only the other way around.

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well AFAIK, autocutsel by default syncs cutbuffer with clipboard, and when you use -selection PRIMARY it syncs cutbuffer with primary (not primary with clipboard as you have interpreted) so if you want to sync primary with clipboard you will need two instances of autocutsel so that all buffers are in sync. I don't see any way to make one-way sync.