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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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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] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

xdotool type --help

--file - 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.