Clipboard module brainstorm - Githubissues

Elv13 / awesome-configs

My AwesomeWM configuration

126 stars 19 forks source link

Clipboard module brainstorm #14

Open Elv13 opened 9 years ago

Elv13 commented 9 years ago

This is the brainstorm for a future module to handle the clipboard

History: My 3.4 config (or early 3.5?) Had options to display mouse buffer and first clipboard in popup as ascii or Hex. This used xsel and wasn't very useful. What a module to handle this need:

To be able to know what's selected at all time
Swap mouse buffer and first clipboard
Keep an history of what is copied
Browse in history to restore elements
Be unobstructive
Bind to mod4+v
Use F-key quick select
Handle mime types

Long shots:

Use copy worker threads before calling lua
Display as hex
Search clipboard content
Display images