wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste,
which allow access to the Wayland clipboard. Specifically, wayclip
is a wlr-data-control protocol client.
wayclip distinguishes itself from other Wayland clipboard utilities in the following ways:
- small - the whole codebase is less than 300 lines! (excluding whitespace)
- Unixy - all it does is copy and paste; other functions are for other programs
- no dynamic memory allocation
To copy data, just pipe it into waycopy, and optionally specify a seat and mimetype:
$ echo "howdy" | waycopy -s seat0 -t text/plain
(note that waycopy will fork into the background)
To paste, optionally specify a seat and desired mimetype:
$ waypaste -s seat0 -t text/plain
howdy
$