Use xdotool instead of cat when CM_OUTPUT_CLIP

[mil-ad]

This allows pasting directly in other non-terminal programs. For example a browser's address bar.

[cdown]

Hi there! Please maintain backwards compatibility of options :-)

It's also not acceptable to make xdotool mandatory, sorry. Please see how we already handle similar cases elsewhere.

The comments in #129 also go over other requirements.

[cdown]

Closing without prejudice due to lack of response to feedback.

[tblancher]

I wouldn't do this in clipmenu itself. You should be able to assign this to however you launch clipmenu in your WM or DE. For XMonad, I linked the following to my desired keybinding:

spawn "clipmenu && xdotool key Ctrl+v"

Replace "Ctrl+v" with whichever key binding you use for pasting.

[johnwuelk]

Thanks! ... && xdotool key Ctrl+v works flawlessly! I use xdotool anyway for various scripts.

[nick87720z]

For case of interesting - text typing works with xdotool type ..., just needs '\r' replaced with '\r'. Though it may cause strange problem after use - when I did it against leafpad editor, it did not react to more key presses for short time, also Ctrl+Backspace did not work few times, when I used it to delete pasted text.

[nick87720z]

I'm experimenting with clipmenu, trying to extend its own rofi-script mode with some operations. Of course, not sure if they are necessary to be right in that file.

This is snippet from case $ROFI_RETV block (in this case assigned to 2nd custom command):

11) chosen_line="$1"
        sed -E 's|(["\$])|\\\1|g
                s|$|\r|
                1s/^/xdotool type --clearmodifiers --delay 20 -- "/
                $s/$/"/' \
        < "${cache_dir}/$(printf '%s\n' "$chosen_line" | cksum)" | sh >/dev/null &
        exit;

Sure, 3rd mouse button simulation would be also useful. Or even more reliable (if any text is placed to selection - mouse paste works in far more cases).

Update: simulation of mid mouse button click seems even harder to work. If runing from shell, it works fine. From clipmenu it's same only with sleep 1 prepended, otherwise - when I tried with leafpad, it either minimized or just went back in stack. Small sleep time, like 0.1 was not enough to prevent this behavior.