Clipboard

pyTermTk include a clipboard wrapper TTkClipboard, around any of the following libraries:

• copykitten - Robust, dependency-free way to use the system clipboard in Python.

• pyperclip - Python module for cross-platform clipboard functions.

• pyperclip3 / pyclip - Cross-platform Clipboard module for Python with binary support.

• clipboard - A cross platform clipboard operation library of Python. Works for Windows, Mac and Linux.

The basic pyTermTk does not include any of those clipboard managers. An internal implementation whitin the scope of the app itself is still available.

If any of the previous listed clipboard managers are installed, pyTermTk is able to automatically detect and use them.

i.e.

# Assuming no clipboard managers are installed
# you can still copy/paste between editors in this session
# but no text is copied to/from the system clipboard
python3 demo/showcase/textedit.py

# if pyperclip is installed,
# pyTermTk defaults the clipboard manager to this tool
# any copy/paste is synced with the system clipboard
# it is possible to copy/paste from/to an external editor
pip install pyperclip
python3 demo/showcase/textedit.py

Usage

Once initialized the clipboard manager, 2 apis are provided that can be used to access the clipboard (TTkClipboard.setText, TTkClipboard.text)

from TermTk import TTkClipboard

# Initialize the clipboard manager
clipboard = TTkClipboard()

# Push some text to the clipboard
clipboard.setText("Example")

# Get the text from the clipboard
text = clipboard.text()

Clipboard over ssh

As reported in 234#, it is possible to share the clipboard enabling the X11 forwarding.

Terminal (Linux,osx)

You can forward X11 using ssh

# Enable X11 forwarding
ssh -X <IP>

or

# Enable trusted X11 forwarding
ssh -Y <IP>

putty

It is possible to forward X11 via putty through these settings