Is there a Wayland cli utility that copies text to clipboard?
I want to be able to do something like this:
echo "some" > clipboard
Something equivalent to xclip.
Is there a Wayland cli utility that copies text to clipboard?
I want to be able to do something like this:
echo "some" > clipboard
Something equivalent to xclip.
bugaevc's wl-clipboard are copy/paste utilities for Wayland:
This project implements two little Wayland clipboard utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste, that let you easily copy data between the clipboard and Unix pipes, sockets, files and so on.
Usage is as simple as:
# copy a simple text message $ wl-copy Hello world! # copy the list of files in Downloads $ ls ~/Downloads | wl-copy # copy an image file $ wl-copy < ~/Pictures/photo.png # paste to a file $ wl-paste > clipboard.txt # grep each pasted word in file source.c $ for word in $(wl-paste); do grep $word source.c; done # copy the previous command $ wl-copy "!!" # replace the current selection with the list of types it's offered in $ wl-paste --list-types | wl-copy
Although wl-copy and wl-paste are particularly optimized for plain text and other textual content formats, they fully support content of arbitrary MIME types. wl-copy automatically infers the type of the copied content by running xdg-mime(1) on it. wl-paste tries its best to pick a type to paste based on the list of offered MIME types and the extension of the file it's pasting into. If you're not satisfied with the type they pick or don't want to rely on this implicit type inference, you can explicitly specify the type to use with the --type option.
For all common linux-distributions the package-name is wl-clipboard
, so use the command that suits yours (if not already installed):
sudo apt install wl-clipboard # Debian
sudo dnf install wl-clipboard # Fedora
sudo pacman -S wl-clipboard # Arch linux
src/meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Dependency "wayland-client" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
during install. I m sure its a stupid mistake from me. is it ? I have run sudo dnf i meson -y
prior to the build attempt.
The only mandatory dependency is the wayland-client library (try package named wayland-devel or libwayland-dev).
Maybe installing one of those mentioned packages helps? Alternatively, maybe the package can be found in the official package repositories.
wclip is a clipboard tool for Wayland that is very similar to xclip
.
Usage is as follows:
$ wclip i < my_text_file
$ wclip o
contents of my text file
$
Disclaimer: I am the author.
I've just 'converted' to a Wayland UX, under Plasma (KDE) and so far most things are as usual. The things important for my workflow have highlighted one or two underlying dependencies on X.Org.
Fortunately, I can use CopyQ
as my Clipboard manager of choice. CopyQ
appears to be a very friendly Wayland supporter; so far, so good.
For CLI copy and paste I now use the following as bash
alias
commands:
clip
... Capture the current selection.
alias cliq='copyq selection'
alias clip='cliq; echo'
paste
... Emit current clipboard contents.
alias paste='copyq read '
CopyQ
can be installed on flathub
from:
I've used CopyQ as soon as I installed my first Linux desktop.