Crouton Clipboard

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• Git

About

Crouton clipboard integrates the Chrome OS clipboard with the crouton linux instance clipboard without running the display (so, only when you use the CLI).

Whenever you copy something on Chrome OS, it is automatically written to ~/.crouton-clipboard/data.txt, and whenever you write to ~/.crouton-clipboard/data.txt, it is automatically copied to your clipboard on Chrome OS.

Installation

First you want to clone Crouton Clipboard® and add node ~/.crouton-clipboard/server to your .bashrc. You can do this manually, or just type

curl -sL https://cdn.rawgit.com/zwhitchcox/crouton-clipboard/ed2b0303/install.sh | sh

into your console, and this will be done automagically.

Next, you need to install the Crouton Clipboard Extension®, which will create a websocket server in the background, and listen on each page for the clipboard event, sending it to the server, which is created by server.js.

Vim Integration

I created this for vim, so I didn't have to copy and paste using the chrome interface, so to install for vim, all you have to do is add the following to your vimrc

nnoremap "*p :r !cat $HOME/.crouton-clipboard/data.txt<CR>
vnoremap "*y :'<,'>w! $HOME/.crouton-clipboard/data.txt<CR>

Note: This is automatically done by install.sh

Then, to copy and paste from the "system" clipboard in vim, just type "*y and "*p.

For more info on Chrome development, please see my video on my Chrome OS DX.