Possible to use with xclip ?

[Vulpes Linn]

On sway cliphists rocks with wl-clipboard.
On i3 I currently configured greenclip.

Is this project works only with wl-clipboard / other wl based protocols ? Or can the command be piped properly to support x11/xclip too ?

PS

I have tried these so far just for curiosity:

cliphist list | rofi -dmenu | cliphist decode | xclip -selection c -

xclip -selection c $(cliphist list | rofi -dmenu | cliphist decode)

dumbly without any luck.

[Senan Kelly]

you'd still need to "watch" clipboard changes and pipe them into cliphist store

maybe try something like

while 1; xclip -o -selection c | cliphist store; sleep 1; end?

[Vulpes Linn]

Didn't work. Can you look into this on your x11/xclip setup & lemme know if it's possible ?

PS

I'm trying to replace greenclip with cliphist, caz why use multiple different programs for different display servers ? Cliphist is just a clipboard database that reads clipboards, stores clips & retrieves them when needed. This shouldn't have to be display server dependent tbh.

[Senan Kelly]

I don't have an x11 system sorry

and you're right it's nothing to so with x or Wayland

you just need to pipe clipboard changes into cliphist store, and retrieve with list and decode

[phanium]

Btw, you could use clipnotify to avoid polling in x11, which works well in my case:

while clipnotify; xclip -o -selection c | cliphist store; end

[Vulpes Linn]

I've completely migrated from i3 to sway now.

while clipnotify; xclip -o -selection c | cliphist store; end

@phanen What's the polling issue btw ? Were you successfully able to use cliphist on x11 with above command ?

[phanium]

Work well for me, and I still use bspwm now (.xinitrc)

About "polling", I just mean xclip will only run on your "copy event"(e.g. press ctrl-c on selected text) rather than on each second. It may cost less, and handle some cases in which you want to copy multiple times within 1 second. (: