copypasta-ext

A clipboard library providing useful extensions for the copypasta library.

I had a growing annoyance with copypasta, because the clipboard is cleared on the Linux/X11 platform when your application exists as per X11 design. The crate maintainer didn't want to implement workarounds (for valid reasons). This copypasta-ext crate provides additional clipboard contexts that solve this, along with a few other additions.

Here are some of these additions:

• X11ForkClipboardProvider: forks process and sets clipboard, keeps contents after exit
• X11BinClipboardProvider: invokes xclip/xsel to set clipboard, keeps contents after exit
• Osc52ClipboardContext: use OSC 52 escape sequence to set clipboard contents
• CombinedClipboardProvider: combine two providers, use different for getting/setting clipboard

Example

Get and set clipboard contents. Keeps contents in X11 clipboard after exit by forking the process. Falls back to standard clipboard provider on non X11 platforms. See x11_fork module for details.

```rust use copypastaext::prelude::*; use copypastaext::x11_fork::ClipboardContext;

fn main() { let mut ctx = ClipboardContext::new().unwrap(); println!("{:?}", ctx.getcontents()); ctx.setcontents("some string".into()).unwrap(); } ```

Get and set clipboard contents. Keeps contents in X11 clipboard after exit by invoking xclip/xsel. Falls back to standard clipboard provider on non X11 platforms. See x11_bin module for details.

```rust use copypastaext::prelude::*; use copypastaext::x11_bin::ClipboardContext;

fn main() { let mut ctx = ClipboardContext::new().unwrap(); println!("{:?}", ctx.getcontents()); ctx.setcontents("some string".into()).unwrap(); } ```

Requirements

• Rust 1.41 or above
• Same requirements as copypasta
• Requirements noted in specific clipboard context modules

Special thanks

• to the maintainers/contributors of rust-clipboard and copypasta
• to everyone involved in all crate dependencies used

License

This project is dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache2 license.