terminal-clipboard

terminal-clipboard is a cross-platform clipboard library focused on strings copying and pasting for terminal applications:

• it's tested on linux, windows and Android (termux)
• it doesn't support Wayland (because you're in the terminal)
• it doesn't handle other types of objects than strings
• it doesn't handle non UTF8 strings

If this doesn't match your requirements, don't hesitate to search for another crate: there are many ones with other goals.

Installation

[dependencies] terminal_clipboard = "0.2.1"

Usage

use terminal_clipboard; terminal_clipboard::set_string("test").unwrap(); assert_eq!("test", terminal_clipboard::get_string().unwrap());

Supported platforms

The implementation is currently chosen from the "target_os" part of the compilation target.

Android (Termux)

The current implementation will defer to Termux API facilities to access the Android clipboard, and won't work if the Termux API isn't available at runtime.

If you know of solutions to access the Android clipboard without Termux, please open an issue.

Linux

If a unix-like target is detected and the "termux" feature isn't enabled, terminal-clipboard uses the x11-clipboard crate. If you're only interested in this platform, you should use this crate directly.

You'll need to have xorg-dev and libxcb-composite0-dev to compile.

On Debian and Ubuntu you can install them with

sudo apt install xorg-dev libxcb-composite0-dev

Windows

If the compilation target is "windows", terminal-clipboard uses the clipboard-win crate. If you're only interested in this platform, you should use this crate directly.