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Hi everyone! I'm the developer of a clipboard manager that I know many of us Linux users here might know, called just The Clipboard Project.

I've spent the past couple months working on a bunch of speed optimizations, little fixes, and a really cool new feature for Linux only: asynchronous X11/Wayland clipboard synchronization. What that means is that you can copy stuff in the background and your CB clipboard will pick it all up automatically.

If that sounds awesome, then you can get the brand-spanking-new 0.8.2 version at https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard or this post's link (thanks, Lemmy!)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends on what exactly you want to do, if you want just a hotkey that copies something in one window and pastes it in another, you'd have to set that up manually. But if you're logged into two SSH sessions at once and you want to copy something from one session and paste it in another, you could do that here. And if you want some hotkey to access something like the clipboard history in a GUI, then you'd need to set up in your window manager. Some users accomplish this through a combination of jq + dmenu (jq to process JSON output, dmenu to select an entry), so it's entirely do-able. For example, here is one such command: cb cp "$(cb hs | jq -r '.[].content | if type=="array" then .[].path else if type=="object" then .path else . end end' | dmenu)"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that’s what I wanted to know. So alas, no out-of-the-box magic for me…I find it incredibly frustrating that in 2023 one can’t simply copy-paste text from one local console to another. It seems like a basic function for a terminal-based *nix systems which doesn’t exist. I know it’s complicated even at the first glance, with huge security implications (like copying text in the root terminal and pasting it to a user one) but I believe it’s all solvable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

simply copy-paste text from one local console to another

Well, if you just have two windows going to two different terminals, whatever text you select in one you can just copy to the other usually with Ctrl+SHIFT+C and Ctrl+SHIFT+V, and my clipboard manager lets you do the same even for large amounts of text you can't select. Therefore, all you'd need a specific setup for is if you want to do this action automatically with a single button press, like an Excel macro. I hope this helps! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think they meant TTYs