Question

I’m working on a Gnome Shell Extensions and I can’t find any documentation on how to copy some string into the clipboard for the user.

I searched the Gnome extensions git but without any success.

Thank you for your help! 🙂

Answer 1

to set the primary clipboard:

St.Clipboard.get_default().set_text(St.ClipboardType.PRIMARY, 'text');

to get the primary clipboard:

St.Clipboard.get_default().get_text(St.ClipboardType.PRIMARY);

There also is the St.ClipboardType.CLIPBOARD buffer.

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