clipboard¶ ↑

Access the clipboard and do not care if the OS is Linux, MacOS or Windows.

Usage¶ ↑

You have Clipboard.copy,

Clipboard.paste and

Clipboard.clear

Have fun ;)

Multiple clipboards¶ ↑

On Linux, you can choose, from which clipboard you want to paste, default is CLIPBOARD.

copy copies to all clipboards in Clipboard::CLIPBOARDS.

Windows Encoding note¶ ↑

If you paste with 1.9, the Clipboard encoding will be translated to your Encoding.default_external.

If you paste with 1.8, it will fallback to CP850 encoding. Copying with 1.8 will fallback to the clip utility, which is installed by default since Vista

SSH note¶ ↑

To you use the clipboard through ssh, you need to install xauth on your server and connect via ssh -X or ssh -Y.

Non-gem requirements¶ ↑

• Linux: xclip, you can install it on debian/ubuntu with sudo apt-get install xclip

Todo¶ ↑

• Don’t depend on xclip

…if there is enough demand or motivation for me °_°

Planned for 0.9.5¶ ↑

• Fallback to ~/.clipboard if the real clipboard can’t be accessed.

• Also check for xsel on linux

blip¶ ↑

Copy and paste from the commandline (like xclip, pbpaste/pbcopy), but even easier? blip!

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010-2011 Jan Lelis, rbjl.net, released under the MIT license

Contributions by and thanks to

• Michael Grosser

J-_-L