https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify

Notify on new X clipboard events
https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify

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Notify on new X clipboard events

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify
• Owner: cdown
• License: other
• Created: 2018-02-06T13:45:32.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-30T23:28:43.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-31T15:19:08.981Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 6.84 KB
• Stars: 238
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 34
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
clipnotify is a simple program that, using the

[XFIXES](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/fixesproto/plain/fixesproto.txt)

extension to X11, waits until a new selection is available and then exits.

It was primarily designed for [clipmenu](https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu), to

avoid polling for new selections.

Here's how it's intended to be used:

    while read; do

        [an event happened, do something with the selection]

    done < <(clipnotify -l)

Or:

    while clipnotify; do

        [an event happened, do something with the selection]

    done

clipnotify doesn't try to print anything about the contents of the selection,

it just exits when it changes. This is intentional -- X11's selection API is

verging on the insane, and there are plenty of others who have already lost

their sanity to bring us xclip/xsel/etc. Use one of those tools to complement

clipnotify.

You can choose a particular selection with `-s`, and loop instead of exiting

with `-l`. See `clipmenu -h` for more information.