to_clipboard has no effect in ipython (works in python) (linux)

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

# Your code here
import pandas as pd
a=pd.DataFrame([0,1,23])
a.to_clipboard()

Problem description

Hi since several months I am no longer able to use the to_clipboard function in ipython - nothing pasted to clipboard. I notice it works in python!!. I have tried using latest version of ipython/pandas on anaconda but no improvement

Expected Output

I expect to paste dataframe into text file etc.

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None python: 3.6.3.final.0 python-bits: 64 OS: Linux OS-release: 4.15.0-34-generic machine: x86_64 processor: x86_64 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 LOCALE: en_GB.UTF-8

pandas: 0.23.4 pytest: 3.7.2 pip: 9.0.3 setuptools: 40.2.0 Cython: 0.26.1 numpy: 1.13.3 scipy: 1.0.0 pyarrow: 0.7.1 xarray: None IPython: 6.5.0 sphinx: 1.6.3 patsy: 0.4.1 dateutil: 2.7.3 pytz: 2014.10 blosc: None bottleneck: 1.2.1 tables: 3.4.2 numexpr: 2.6.2 feather: None matplotlib: 2.1.0 openpyxl: 2.4.8 xlrd: 1.1.0 xlwt: 1.3.0 xlsxwriter: 1.0.2 lxml: 4.1.0 bs4: 4.4.1 html5lib: 0.9999999 sqlalchemy: 1.0.14 pymysql: None psycopg2: 2.7.1 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64) jinja2: 2.7.3 s3fs: None fastparquet: None pandas_gbq: None pandas_datareader: None

[filiphl]

Installing xclip fixed this for me.

[mattmoehr]

Same for me. Needed to sudo apt install xclip.

Ubuntu 20.04 pandas 1.2.4