How can I copy the text to the clipboard while using spacemacs?

Question

I know that on emacs I can install the xclip package in order to be able to copy text to the system clipboard... With the xclip package installed and adding the following to my .emacs file, I can copy the text inside emacs and paste it into another program.

(xclip-mode 1)

So far everything is fine. However, on spacemacs I'm struggling to make it work... I know I need to edit the .spacemacs file in order to make it work. But if I install the xclip package and change my user-config function to the following:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  "Configuration for user code:
This function is called at the very end of Spacemacs startup, after layer
configuration.
Put your configuration code here, except for variables that should be set
before packages are loaded."
  (xclip-mode 1)
)

It doesn't work, if I try to copy text with yy (vim keybindings) it won't get to the system clipboard. What am I missing? What do I need to do in order to use xclip correctly on spacemacs?

Answer 1

I ended up finding a solution in a different question... If I add xclip to the dotspacemacs-additional-packages on the .spacemacs file as the following:

dotspacemacs-additional-packages '(xclip)

And then I leave the user-config function as it was in my original question it works fine and anything I copy inside spacemacs will get to the system clipboard:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  "Configuration for user code:
This function is called at the very end of Spacemacs startup, after layer
configuration.
Put your configuration code here, except for variables that should be set
before packages are loaded."
  (xclip-mode 1)
)