This is one of the features I miss on Windows (https://github.com/Collective-Software/ClickPaste), I was wondering if there was an alternative to this for Linux?

Essentially instead of pasting all the text from your clipboard, it will type out the contents as though the letters were typed on the keyboard. One by one. This allowed me to “paste” into VMs and other places that I normally couldn’t.

The ol’ google gave me nothing but “How to paste into terminal” posts which is not what I want.

  • 6svdwug0@lemm.ee
    30·
    23 days ago
    xclip -o -selection clipboard | xdotool keyup Super_L type --delay 100 --clearmodifiers --file -

    I use the code above with Win + T in KDE shortcuts to type the content from the clipboard.

    • Jozzo@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      22 days ago

      Works awesome! Thanks for introducing me to xdotool, what a helpful utility. Question: what does the --file flag in your command do? I can’t find it in the manpage

      • 6svdwug0@lemm.ee
        4·
        21 days ago

        xdotool type --help

        –file <filepath> - specify a file, the contents of which will be be typed as if passed as an argument. The filepath may also be ‘-’ to read from stdin.