This is the first stable release of wl-clipboard! 🎉 It features:
- Primary clipboard support! Just pass the
--primaryflag and it will use the primary clipboard instead of the regular one. All the features are supported, so for example you can copy images into the primary clipboard (wl-copy -p < picture.png) and then paste them with middle-click. - xdg-shell support; this enables wl-clipboard to work on compositors that lack
wl_shellsupport (such as Sway). wl-clipboard transparently chooses which protocol to use based on what it was built with and what the compositor supports, so you don't have to worry about this. - Vastly improved type inference in
wl-paste. It's now very likely to just do the right thing by default. You can also now specify a type explicitly using the--typeoption for bothwl-copyandwl-paste. - You can now list all the MIME types the selection is available in with
wl-paste --list-types. I don't know of any other tool or app that lets you get this info (on Wayland). - A bunch of other flags and features (
--paste-once,--foreground,--clear,--no-newline). - Lots of bug fixes.
- A comprehensive man page! Type any of
man wl-clipboard,man wl-copy, orman wl-pasteto read it. - wl-clipboard is now packaged in the official Debian repos and in Arch (AUR)! 🎉