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"Paste as keystrokes" on linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm on Wayland these days, but if you happen to be using X11 this is the homebrew solution I used to use:

xdotool type --delay 50 "$(xclip -o -sel c)"

The --delay argument specifies the delay in milliseconds between keystrokes; if you go too low on that it tends to break things.

Interested to see what solrize comes up with because this method definitely has drawbacks -- no way to interrupt it and if you accidentally paste something large it takes a long time to finish due to the forced delays.

I've never really had the need for a Wayland version, but I don't see why subbing ydotool for xdotool and wl-paste for xclip wouldn't work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you pasted something long, you could possible switch to a terminal (ctrl+alt+f2 or something), and kill the process.
Or you could grab another machine, and ssh into yours to kill the process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ydotool has lots of caveats because of wayland; your other examples work better imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Good solution, cheers! I also followed the other commenter's idea to add it as a KDE shortcut so I can use it on demand.

I guess I'll just need to be careful not to paste a bazillion lines of text lol