Clipboard commands

[skerit]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I used to use xclip over SSH in my terminal application to copy some text to the clipboard. Since switching to Wayland this is no longer possible, not even with wl-clipboard because Wayland doesn't have network transparency.

Describe the solution you'd like

The Kitty terminal actually supports a new terminal command: clipboard_control

In Kitty, you can set the clipboard value with this command: printf "\033]52;;$(printf "%s" "blabla" | base64)\a"

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tried wl-clipboard, but that doesn't work over SSH. I thought about just switching to Kitty, but it's not as user friendly as Terminator.

[mattrose]

Ugh, this is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/125 which seems to be a very contentious issue, and is currently closed, even though there is a perfectly good VTE patch that implements support for it just sitting there. If I don't hear back soon I'll poke the VTE maintainer.

[mattrose]

Well, I'm really sorry, but given the response in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795774#c19 I'm going to say that VTE support for this is not going to be forthcoming. I'll keep an eye on the issue, and I'll implement it in terminator if it ever gets supported, but I'm going to close this bug, because there's nothing I can do to fix this myself.

[skerit]

That's a shame. Thanks for looking into it though!