Clipboards, Terminals, and Linux

• tmux

  207 32,923 8.3 C

  tmux source code

  

Which leads me to clipboards. Linux has two of them! Adding to the interest, I typically use Neovim remotely, via an SSH connection to a Tmux session. And on my Linux system, I use urxvt as my terminal program. All of these are very UNIX-y tools, and somehow they all need to play nicely together.

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

I've recently switched to Neovim, and with it begun using the terminal mouse support. But, this has the side-effect that I can't just click-and-drag to select text in the terminal anymore -- Neovim controls that as well.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• clipnotify

  6 209 0.0 C

  Notify on new X clipboard events

The common xclip utility can be used to get or set clipboards. And, there's a tiny little utility script called clipnotify that I found really useful for debugging this. I cloned and built it, then ran it in a loop:

• dotfiles

  1 4 5.4 Vim Script

  My custom dotfles (by parantapa)

The urxvt terminal emulator doesn't support OSC-52 out of the box. Honestly, it does very little out of the box! But there's a tiny script, 52-osc that adds this support. This is actually nice, because you can see what it does:

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