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Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2019-01-10 · latest 2025-09-11

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  1. …points (and in fact I am typing this comment on Xorg because I have my own list of reasons), but https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard is almost drop-in for xclip/xsel.
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-09-11 · in KDE launches its own distribution
  2. > things it doesn't support like xclip https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard $ cat ~/bin/clip #!/bin/sh if [[ -z $WAYLAND_DISPLAY ]]; then xclip -selection clipboard else wl-copy fi
    comment by the_pwner224 · 2023-10-21 · in With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)
  3. There's `wl-copy` and `wl-paste` for Wayland users too, via https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
    comment by lozf · 2023-06-27 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about
  4. …AppleScript via `osascript` to `set the clipboard to...`. [0] https://github.com/astrand/xclip [1] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
    comment by iuafhiuah · 2023-06-27 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about
  5. …another important one for me: xclip, read from and write to the clipboard in the command line https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
    comment by WhyNotHugo · 2022-11-25 · in Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
  6. …to the clipboard in the command line There's wl-clipboard with the commands wl-copy and wl-paste: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard Works flawless in my experience.
    comment by ybc37 · 2022-11-25 · in Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
  7. …well though... [0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar [1] https://github.com/artizirk/wdisplays [2] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard [3] https://github.com/emersion/grim [4] https://github.com/emersion/slurp [5]…
    comment by mijoharas · 2022-03-21 · in Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
  8. wl-clipboard [1] provides similar wl-copy & wl-paste for wayland [1] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
    comment by lf-non · 2021-08-30 · in Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
  9. …the same, but I use Kanshi for dynamic output configuration. https://github.com/emersion/kanshi * https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard * https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi * https://github.com/yory8/clipman * There's wlrobs for OBS. There's…
    comment by popcornarsonist · 2021-02-02 · in I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
  10. There are few replacements: * https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard * https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool OBS / ffmpeg and etc. should get integrated with Pipewire I think for screen capture and the like? But I'm not sure how far that…
    comment by shmerl · 2020-10-28 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  11. …believe how snappy it is. Some of your issues are solved: CLI clipboard access: wl-clipboard: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard App launcher: bemenu: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
    comment by creese · 2020-10-28 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  12. …https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/keys/i... For wl-copy / wl-paste, see: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
    comment by shmerl · 2019-01-10 · in So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux