How to copy a picture to clipboard from command line in linux?

Question

I can copy image in Gimp and paste it to OpenOffice document.

How to do it (copy or paste image) from command line?

Answer 1

Try xclip, it reads from stdin and should allow you to do

xclip < image.jpg

to copy the image to the clipboard.

UNTESTED

Answer 2

The following python/pygtk script does the job:

#!/usr/bin/python
import gtk, pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import sys, os

def copy_image(f):
    assert os.path.exists(f), "file does not exist"
    image = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(f)
    clipboard = gtk.clipboard_get()
    clipboard.set_image(image)
    clipboard.store()

copy_image(sys.argv[1]);

(Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1689889)

To use this, sudo apt-get install python pygtk, paste the above code into a script, chmod +x to make executable, and you should be good to go.