sentriz/cliphist

How to configure cliphist to save in history the selected text with mouse?

jetm opened this issue · 1 comments

jetm commented

Start using Hyprland and coming from KDE. In KDE there is Klipper as a clipboard manager; it allows you to copy in the clipboard history any text after being selected with the mouse. It's a nice feature because it saves pressing the Ctrl+C keys. This kind of behavior can be configured in Kitty, but I have been unable to make it work outside of the terminal. I have tried:

exec-once = wl-paste --type text --watch cliphist store
exec-once = wl-paste --type image --watch cliphist store
exec-once = wl-clip-persist --clipboard both

I can confirm the previous settings only copy the text when it's is selected with the keyboard. It doesn't work copy the text when is selected with the mouse.

  • Do I am missing something in my configuration?

  • Is this an issue in cliphist or wl-paste?

  • How could I know where to identify is the problem? Anything else I would need to do to find out where the problem is?

I am using cliphist v0.5.0 in Arch Linux and Hyprland v0.37.0.

sentriz commented

can you try wl-paste --primary --type text --watch X

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