Questions tagged [xclip]
Use this tag for questions about using the xclip utility to copy text into and from the X clipboard.
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Bash: programmatically output text to cursor?
I'm trying to cook up a script to use OpenAI's Whisper as a speech-to-text. The basic idea is I press some key combination, it starts recording to an audio file somewhere, I stop it, it analyzes the ...
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.desktop that copies clicked urls to clipboard in place of a default browser
I would like to create a simple .desktop file that I can use in place of a default browser that simply copies any clicked url to the clipboard and displays a short confirming message. I have written ...
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Work around for "xclip -o -selection clipboard -t text/html" -> "Error: target text/html not available"
In gnome-terminal,
xclip -o -selection clipboard -t text/html
gives
Error: target text/html not available
In some sense, this makes sense, because gnome-terminal does not accept html pastes.
However,...
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script that uses xclip not working from keyboard shortcut
Output of uname -a: Linux negosaki 5.11.0-46-lowlatency #51~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 7 08:04:34 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have the following script in ~/bin/flameshot-ocr, ...
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How to save a QR code generated from the Electrum Wallet directly as a PNG or JPG file?
How do I save and send the QR code:
as a jpg or png?
There are ways to use gimp and/or xclip but I would hope that I can just save the QR code directly to file. Is this possible?
Notably, Windows ...
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How can I insert an image into the clipboard using a terminal or bash script?
I'm making a custom script that uses ImageMagick to take screenshots because I deleted the original application and wanted to do a custom one.
#! /bin/sh.
cd magickScreenshots/
ls -v | cat -n | while ...
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How to set up a systemd service to listen on a socket and copy the contents to the clipboard?
I am trying to follow this tutorial which will help me copy text from remote tmux sessions onto my local clipboard.
The first there is to setup a systemd service which listens on a given port on the ...
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enabling copy/ paste on ubuntu-server 18.04.4
How can I use xclip to create a shared clipboard experience?
I require to have a shared clipboard with a iDRAC Dell server running ubuntu-server 18.04.4. The install is a minimal install without ...
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xclip not working when invoked from keyboard shortcut
I got the command:
echo "[email protected]"| tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection c
It works when I run it from the terminal. However, when I added it as custom keyboard shortcut nothing happens.
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Detect clipboard copy/paste event and modify clipboard contents
After something is copied to clipboard (using ctrl+c) I want a script (bash, python or any other language) to automatically detect that new entry is added to clipboard, change it's content and put it ...
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Is it possible to copy a variable to the Shift+Insert clipboard from the command line?
When I create scripts, I use the xclip command to copy a variable to the clipboard, so I can paste it using CTRL+V or automate my script to paste it with xdotool. The command that I use to copy a ...
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Alternative to xsel or xclip *without* X11 installed?
xclip/xsel need X11.
When I use putty from a Windows box to linux (without X11 installed), is there an alternative to xsel or xclip?
I would like to pipe the complete shell command output to the ...
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How do I make a keyboard shortcut for code which uses xsel?
OS: Kubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 18.04
I want to remove the first seven characters of certain strings I copy. For example, I want to first copy and then convert
1234567890
to
890
I can do so with the ...
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Copying a SSH public key on a VPS with a SSH connection [duplicate]
I am trying to copy my public key on a VPS.
After I connect I run the following
xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Xclip gives me a can't open display error.
Right now I manually open the ...
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Launching mpv from a .desktop entry with the clipboard as argument
I'm trying to make a submenu entry on a .desktop application file that launches a youtube address with mpv. The youtube url is copied from the clipboard.
Inside gnome-terminal this works fine:
xclip -...
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xclip on remote machine [duplicate]
I want to paste the contents of my clipboard on machine A (client - Windows 7), to machine B (Ubuntu 16.04 Server). I followed the instructions here, but I'm still having the same problem. Here is the ...
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How does clipboard work? [duplicate]
On a deep level, how does copying something to the clipboard work? Is there a file that stores the text or image I copy somewhere?
I found Memory location of clipboard where the question was never ...
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How can I feed clipboard content to gnome-terminal?
I have a plugin that generates and copies to the clipboard a ready-to-paste command. For now I open a new terminal, paste the command and execute it.
I want to write a script that automatically opens ...
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Odd behavior of xclip
The xclip manual says that there are three storage locations named primary (XA_PRIMARY), secondary (XA_SECONDARY) and clipboard (XA_CLIPBOARD). I copied (Ctrl+c) some text from my browser and examined ...
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Change character encoding in a text file
Is there a way to change the character encoding of a text file? If so, how?
See, I am using a keyboard shortcut to call a shell command which itself uses xclip to copy the contents of a file into ...
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Sending content to the clipboard via a Bash script
If I do echo foo | xclip -i in the terminal and then Ctrl + V, I get foo.
But instead, if I write a file,
bar.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo bar | xclip -i
and run ./bar.sh in the terminal, the clipboard content ...
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Copy to clipboard from command line [duplicate]
Trying to copy to clipboard from command line by using command:
xclip /etc/apt/sources.list
Trying to get out from clipboard:
xclip -o
This prints the content of sources.list and it is fine.
But ...
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'xclip' vs. 'xsel'
There are two command-line tools (in two different packages) to access the X clipboard:
xclip
xsel
I would love to know the difference between those two and hear a recommendation which one to use in ...
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Add a newline at end of clipboard contents
I use xclip to copy the contents of the clipboard and pipe them to another application. However, if the last line that was copied doesn't have an end of line character, it doesn't show in the ...
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Open chrome with content of clipboard
Lets say I have a URL in my clipboard, if I run on the terminal:
xclip -o
It will echo the domain, I would like to use this content as a variable to put on the command:
google-chrome --enable-...
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Use xclip in a launcher command on xfce4 panel?
I'm trying to get this command line to work in a launcher on xfce4:
echo "myAdress" | xclip -selection clipboard
If i use this command line in the standard terminal, there are no problems.
Executed ...
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How to add a Package to kernel to make it default package?
I want to add xclip package to kernel to make it default package. Means if I give mine custom version of kernel to someone to install then xclip package should also be installed with kernel. They don'...
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Processing clipboard text through a script in between copy and paste
I want to intercept the paste event and run any text through my script. The use case is like this (assume I have a script somewhere which accepts text on stdin and turns 'world' into 'potato', ...
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unable to paste with xclip outside of terminal
I am trying to copy from the terminal with xclip and paste it into the unity desktop environment into gedit text editor. I can copy and paste with xclip in terminal:
$ cat line-size.c | xclip
xclip -...
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