Clipboard popup widget

[salahoued]

Hi,
After using rofi dmenu to get clipboard history for a while, I decided it was time for good Sfwbar widget to replace it.
It should be noted that this widget depends on wl-clipboard and wl-clipboard-history script which in turn depends on sqlite3

~/.config/sfwbar/widgets/clipboard-pop.widget

clipboard-pop.widget.txt
clipboard-pop.widget.txt

~/.config/sfwbar/scripts/sfwbar-clipboard.py

sfwbar-clipboard.py.txt
sfwbar-clipboard.py.txt

UPDATE: when an item in the clipboard is greater than certain length it became impossible to draw the widget, and sometimes causing sfwbar to core dump. using -GtkWidget-ellipsize to limit the widget width and modifying the python script to not show more than 3 lines in label.

Hope you like it :)

[01micko]

@salahoued nice job but clipboard can be a very complicated thing with all sorts of issues. See labwc/labwc#2042 just to begin going down the rabbit hole!

I came up with a completely different solution using external apps. I use wofi but you could use any other launcher type app or a dedicated clipboard app like nwg-clipman.

EDIT: Sorry didn't read the post properly!

See #216 (comment) for my take on it. Hope it's useful. Cheers!

[knm100]

@salahoued thank you for your widget! In my case it always shows the following error

system("wl-clipboard-history")
    ^^^^^^
NameError: name 'system' is not defined

Would you mind helping me see what's wrong? I haven't made any changes.

[knm100]

no any output message.

[salahoued]

OK, the database history is empty, there no history in it yet,
You need to add wl-clipboard-history -t in you compositor/WM config so it can be started with the compositor start up.
For now you can run it in a terminal or use your launcher if it support running shell command.

[salahoued]

to make sure it is running correctly, do pgrep wl-paste if there is an output, that mean it is watching your wayland clipboard.
then copy something, then watch if there is any history with sqlite3 ~/.clipboard.sqlite "select * from c" or using the sfwbar widget

[knm100]

I ran wl-clipboard-history -t in terminal, got the following output message

edited
I known why. I needed to let wl-paste know the path to wl-clipboard-list, after adding the path to the function named listen, it worked
thank you very much!

[salahoued]

Is the wl-clipboard-history script in your $PATH, if not, add it the PATH (copy it to ~/.local/bin) , then try again

That's the output od wl-paste -w wl-clipboard-history, because wl-clipboard-history script is not in your path,
copy that script to ~/.local/bin or ~/bin

[salahoued]

@knm100, It is better to leave wl-clipboard-history as is and put/copy it to ~/.local/bin/ directory, that way you can use it as a command shell, and use it whith other tools.

It is also recommended to add it to your compositor config, so every time you log in it will ran automatically
for example:

• for sway you can add exec wl-clipboard-history -t to your config
• for hyprland you can add exec-once = wl-clipboard-history -t to you hypr.conf

[salahoued]

Sorry, I gave you the wrong command earlier, in sfwbar-clipboard.py make it like this:
action[1] = Exec "sqlite3 ''' + clipboard + ''' 'SELECT contents FROM c WHERE ID = ''' + str(item[0]) + ''' ' | wl-copy"

[knm100]

it is still the same not being able to right-click paste
Please see the following output message (run the python script sfwbar-clipboard.py in the terminal)

PopUp "ClipboardPopup" {
  AutoClose = true
  style = "clip_pop_style"

  grid "ClipboardPopupGrid" {
   style = "clip_pop_grid_style"
   #css = "* { -GtkWidget-direction: bottom; -GtkWidget-max-width: 400px; - }"

   grid "ClipboardHeder" {
     style = "clip_header_style"

     label "count_label" {
       value = "3 Items present"
       css = "* { -GtkWidget-align: 0;  -GtkWidget-hexpand: true; }"
     }
     button "clipitem_clearall" {
       style = "clip_item_button_style"
       value = "edit-delete-shred"
       action[1] = 'sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite "DELETE FROM c"'
       tooltip = "Clear All items in clipboard history"
     }
    }

    grid {
        style = "clip_item_style"
        label "clip_item_label" {
            style = "clip_item_label_style"
            value = "it is still the same not being able to right-click paste"
            action[1] = "sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite 'SELECT contents FROM c WHERE ID = 123 ' | wl-copy"
            tooltip = "Click on item to copy it to clipboard."
        }
        button "clip_item_button" {
            style = "clip_item_button_style"
            value = "edit-delete"
            action[1] = "sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite 'DELETE FROM c WHERE ID = 123'"
            tooltip = "Click to remove the item from clipboard history."
        }
        }
    
    grid {
        style = "clip_item_style"
        label "clip_item_label" {
            style = "clip_item_label_style"
            value = "action[1] = \"sqlite3 \'\'\' + clipboard + \'\'\' \'SELECT contents FROM c WHERE ID = \'\'\' + str(item[0]) + \'\'\' \' | wl-copy\""
            action[1] = "sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite 'SELECT contents FROM c WHERE ID = 122 ' | wl-copy"
            tooltip = "Click on item to copy it to clipboard."
        }
        button "clip_item_button" {
            style = "clip_item_button_style"
            value = "edit-delete"
            action[1] = "sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite 'DELETE FROM c WHERE ID = 122'"
            tooltip = "Click to remove the item from clipboard history."
        }
        }
    
    grid {
        style = "clip_item_style"
        label "clip_item_label" {
            style = "clip_item_label_style"
            value = "knm100/lxqt-policykit"
            action[1] = "sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite 'SELECT contents FROM c WHERE ID = 121 ' | wl-copy"
            tooltip = "Click on item to copy it to clipboard."
        }
        button "clip_item_button" {
            style = "clip_item_button_style"
            value = "edit-delete"
            action[1] = "sqlite3 /home/knm/.clipboard.sqlite 'DELETE FROM c WHERE ID = 121'"
            tooltip = "Click to remove the item from clipboard history."
        }
        }
    
}
 }

[salahoued]

These are the commands that I tried and are "working":

action[1] = Exec 'bash -c "wl-clipboard-history -p ''' + str(item[0]) + ''' | wl-copy"'
OR

action[1] = Exec 'bash -c "wl-copy $(sqlite3 ''' + clipboard + ''' \\"SELECT contents FROM c WHERE ID = ''' + str(item[0]) + ''' \\")" '

OR

action[1] = Exec 'bash -c "wl-copy $(wl-clipboard-history -p ''' + str(item[0]) + ''')"'

I still don't know the reason, why its not working for you (Even the first isn't).

[salahoued]

@knm100, if nothing is working for you can try the wrappers under the contrib directory in wl-clipboard-history repository,
the dmenu-wrapper can be modified to be used with any other tools e.g. rofi or wofi
instead of
wl-clipboard-history -p "$(wl-clipboard-history -l 20 | dmenu | cut -d ',' -f1)" | wl-copy

you can put for rofi
wl-clipboard-history -p "$(wl-clipboard-history -l 20 | rofi -dmenu | cut -d ',' -f1)" | wl-copy
or for wofi
wl-clipboard-history -p "$(wl-clipboard-history -l 20 | wofi --dmenu | cut -d ',' -f1)" | wl-copy

[knm100]

Thank you for help. I will try it.