Questions[xsel](ubuntu)

I upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 and having clipboard clearing issues using xsel

If I ctrl+c in a text editor and run xsel -cb; xsel -cp; xsel -cs in terminal, the clipboard doesn't clear (ctrl+v continues to paste content). Additionally, xsel -b does not return anything. However ctrl+v does paste the copied content with ctrl+c.

I also have a keyboard shortcut to clear the clipboard with the same behavior (command: bash -c "xsel -cb; xsel -cp; xsel -cs")

Now... once I use xsel in terminal with a copy command: echo hello|xsel -b everything works normally going forward.

The keyboard shortcut works as expected, even on subsequent ctrl+c content, until I log off the user or reboot the machine.

I've tried purging xsel and re-installing, but that has not resolved the issue. Any thoughts on how I can resolve?

Right now I have a keybinding that uses the xsel program to grab the contents of selected text and pass it to the festival text to speech engine:

#!/bin/bash
xsel |festival --tts --pipe  

I want to have the ability to toggle a process that will allow me to have any text I highlight automatically spoken, and I want to kill and restart the process if I highlight something else. Is this even possible? I think such a tool would greatly enhance everyone's workflow.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS x86_64 Kernel: 5.3.0-51-generic Shell: zsh 5.4.2 DE: GNOME

I want the text copied from the mouse (clipboard or X selection), or copied with Ctrl+C, to be automatically transferred to a text file.

I am using a very good website for subtitling videos called VEED [1], which automatically generates subtitles from the audio, but it not allow, in the free version, to download the subtitle file in .SBV or .SRT format, with the captions and time periods. It is necessary to copy and paste each piece of caption and time period, one at a time. Therefore, I would like a way to facilitate this task, automatically transferring each piece of text and time copied for some text file.

After something is copied to clipboard (using ctrl+c) I want a script (bash, python or any other language) to automatically detect that new entry is added to clipboard, change it's content and put it back to clipboard so when I paste it I get the modified text. The script should constantly run in background and monitor the clipboard for changes.

The following script describes the modification that is needed :
Source : https://superuser.com/questions/796292/is-there-an-efficient-way-to-copy-text-from-a-pdf-without-the-line-breaks

#!/bin/bash

# title: copy_without_linebreaks
# author: Glutanimate (github.com/glutanimate)
# license: MIT license

# Parses currently selected text and removes 
# newlines that aren't preceded by a full stop

SelectedText="$(xsel)"

ModifiedText="$(echo "$SelectedText" | \
    sed 's/\.$/.|/g' | sed 's/^\s*$/|/g' | tr '\n' ' ' | tr '|' '\n')"

#   - first sed command: replace end-of-line full stops with '|' delimiter and keep original periods.
#   - second sed command: replace empty lines with same delimiter (e.g.
#     to separate text headings from text)
#   - subsequent tr commands: remove existing newlines; replace delimiter with
#     newlines
# This is less than elegant but it works.

echo "$ModifiedText" | xsel -bi

I do not want to use shortcut key binding to run the script.

When I use putty from a Windows box to linux (without X11 installed), is there an alternative to xsel or xclip? xclip/xsel need X11. I would like to pipe the complete shell command output to the clipboard which I then paste on the Windows box to an application. I would like not to have to install all the X11 dependencies xsel and xclip need on those linux servers. Is this possible? Dan