Commands tagged clipboard

Translate the X selection from German to English. The tw program is available from Savannah: http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/savannah/twandgtw/

I'm posting this because the base Debian system also does not include curl.

Uses google api to translate, you can modify the language in which translate modifying the parameter "langpair=|en", the format is language input|language output.

That works in all softs, CLI or GUI... I don't want to waste time to all the time typing the same stuff . So, I have that command in my window manager shortcuts ( meta+l ). All the window managers have editable shortcuts AFAIK. If not, or you don't want to use it that way, you can easily use the xbindkeys soft.

I you're using kde4, you can run :

then open "inputs actions" and create a new shortcut.

For Gnome take a look there : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-keyboard-shortcuts-in-gnome/

A more advanced one, with strings and newlines :

For complicated or long paste, you can feed xvkbd with a file :

You can simulate ^C ( control+c ) too or others combinations of keys :

There's no man page nor help ( On my Archlinux distro ), but you can see online doc there : http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/

"Copying" things to the X clipboard doesn't normally create a copy. Rather the data to be 'copied' is referenced. This means that if the application that you 'copied' stuff from is closed, that data is lost. If the application that you 'copied' from is suspended with CTRL-Z, there could be some issues if you try to paste it into something.

This command will create a copy of referenced data and have xclip be the provider of it, so you can then go ahead and close the app that contains the original information.

Caveat: I'm not sure if this is binary-safe (though i would expect it to be), and don't know what would happen if you used it to clip a 20 meg gimp image.

This technique becomes more convenient if you set it up as an action in a clipboard manager (eg klipper, parcellite). Some of these applets can take automatic action based on a variety of parameters, so you could probably just get it to always own the clipped data whenever data is clipped.

Redirects the contents of your clipboard through a pipe, to a remote machine via SSH.

shortest alternative without the speed-o-meter"xclip large.xml"

"xclip -o" to get the clipboard content, alternatively [shift key] + insert or middle button of your mouse.

In turn you can get the contents of your clipboard by typing xsel by itself with no arguments:

This command requires you to install the xsel utility which is free