clipboard
The clipboard, from the compositor's data control
(ext-data-control-v1, else wlr-data-control: Hyprland, sway, niri,
labwc): the selection, a value copied from a handler, and the history.
| Field | Type | |
available | bool | The compositor offers data control: false without it, when history stays as it was and copy fails with clipboard.failed (an input still copies and pastes). |
text | text | The selection's text, or "" when it holds none (empty, an image, or a password manager's secret, which is never read). |
holds_image | bool | The selection is an image; once recorded, its file is history[0].image. |
history | [ClipboardEntry] | What was copied, newest first, each once: texts and images, the newest 100 within 64 MiB, kept across restarts. Recorded while a program reads it anywhere (see spec.md 8.1); a secret never enters it. |
| Method | |
action copy(value: text) | Copies value as text: it becomes the selection, which other programs paste (on click { clipboard.copy(ip) }). |
action clear() | Empties the history and deletes its file; the selection stays. |
| Event | |
on clipboard.failed(action: text, error: text) | An action failed (no data control, an image file gone): on clipboard.failed(action, error) { … }. |
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