Clipboards, Terminals, and Linux

1. tmux

   1 252 48,616 9.8 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.

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. neovim

   2 1,465 101,693 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.

4. clipnotify

   3 6 256 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:

5. dotfiles

   4 1 3 5.9 Shell

   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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