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cdown / clipmenu

Clipboard management using dmenu
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Added entry to README.md for automatic pasting with sxhkd #124

Closed jpnadas closed 4 years ago

jpnadas commented 4 years ago

Simply setting CM_OUTPUT_CLIP=1 doesn't work with sxhkd. I managed to get it working with xdotool, so I added it to README.md, as I imagine this is something many people will want.

cdown commented 4 years ago

Thanks, but this seems highly specific (eg. most clipmenu are not also sxhkd users...), so I'm not in favour of adding this to the readme.

CM_OUTPUT_CLIP is about putting the clipboard contents on stdout anyway, I'm not sure how it's related.

jpnadas commented 4 years ago

I think I confused putting it to stdout to pasting it... that is my bad.

In any case, don't you think this is relevant? sxhkd is widely used, and I think the behavior of pasting it automatically is quite nice to have.

cdown commented 4 years ago

Where's the evidence that sxhkd is widely used by clipmenu users? There's only a single other issue or pull request that refers to it in any fashion (https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu/issues?q=sxhkd). If we added instructions for every piece of software which is "widely used", the readme would become an unending mess.

A generic guide to programmatically triggering a paste seems an independent piece of information from clipmenu operation, though, even if it's not about sxhkd.

jpnadas commented 4 years ago

Ok, you convinced me. My intention was to save some time for people who tried to do the same thing as I did, but you are right, the readme is not the right place to have it.

I will withdraw the PR