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Holysword
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 Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:33 am Post subject: xsel + xdotool, how does clipboard work? |
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Hello eberybody,
I am trying to come up with a script that copies a text snippet from a file and pastes it into current position in the text, regardless of which application I am using. The idea is that I can assign global shortcuts for them and then have effectively "many copy buffers". I am using primarily E19 WM, but also KDE sometimes, if that even matters.
The following line almost works:
| Code: | | source ~/myfile && echo $VAR1 | xsel --clipboard && xdotool key --clearmodifiers ctrl+v |
except that it seems to ignore xsel and pastes whatever was the last thing I ctrl+c 'ed. I've tried the "primary" and "secondary" buffers from xsel too, neither works.
If I use xdotool click --clearmodifiers 2, that line works, but I then I have to point the mouse to where I want to paste, which is not really ideal when I am just using the keyboard.
xdotool type "$VAR1" does type the whole thing, but it comes out clumsy and it really... types it in, so it actually takes a while if the text is long-ish. Also, I had problems with some special characters.
Could anyone shed some light here? Is it even possible to do that?
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Dr.Willy
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not really familliar with xdotool, but reading the documentation I don't understand why you even need xsel.
From what I read | Code: | | source ~/myfile && xdotool type "$VAR1" |
should do the trick, no? |
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Holysword
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| Dr.Willy wrote: | I'm not really familliar with xdotool, but reading the documentation I don't understand why you even need xsel.
From what I read | Code: | | source ~/myfile && xdotool type "$VAR1" |
should do the trick, no? |
It does, but as I mentioned, "it comes out clumsy and it really... types it in, so it actually takes a while if the text is long-ish. Also, I had problems with some special characters."
Sometimes it skips some characters if I set the keypress delay to too quick. If the computer lags for some reason, (i.e. something heavy running int he background) it also skips some characters. This method is not reliable.
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