On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 09:49:43 -0700, brad clawsie wrote: > i recently created a shell script called "pastexclip" which contains the text > > xclip -o > > and bound this in dwm to Alt+v > > but when i use my dwm shortcut Alt+v, the text is printed not to the > current context in X, but the system console (i.e. i see it after > exiting X)
I pipe the output of xclip through xmacroplay, like this: #!/bin/sh sleep 0.2 { echo -n 'String ' xclip -o } | xmacroplay -d 3 :0 which I also bound to Modkey-v. The sleep statement ensures that I can let go of the Modkey in time. Otherwise the outcome can be ugly :-)