Changing Clipboard Data From The Shell

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Changing Clipboard Data From The Shell

When you use the copy and paste function on your Pre the string has to go somewhere. Right? Well, from what I learned from tharris which was that the string goes to a file called webkit-clipboard which is located in the /tmp directory.

Manual Steps

Step One: Access the Linux portion of your Pre

Step Two: Edit your clipboard file (you need to at least copy and paste something once for the file to show up)

vi /tmp/webkit-clipboard

Step Three: Save it.

Tip: for more info on how to use vi, remember Google is your friend...

By: JRG

WebOS Clipboard Buddy

WebOS Clipboard Buddy is a very simple pyGTK app that allows you to easily copy data between your desktop's clipboard and the Pre's clipboard. Feel free to improve upon it. Currently this is Linux only, though it should be trivial to get working under windows. It currently requires that you have the SDK installed (specifically that novacom is functional and available at /usr/local/bin/novacom/novacom).

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2009 James Hines

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import gtk
import pygtk
import commands
from subprocess import *

DEBUG=True

def quit_cb(widget, data = None):
    if data:
        data.set_visible(False)
        gtk.main_quit()
        
def popup_menu_cb(widget, button, time, data = None):
    if button == 3:
        if data:
            data.show_all()
            data.popup(None, None, None, 3, time)
            pass

def pre_to_clipboard_cb(widget):
    clipboard = gtk.clipboard_get(gtk.gdk.SELECTION_CLIPBOARD)
    result = commands.getstatusoutput('/usr/local/bin/novacom/novacom get file:///tmp/webkit-clipboard')
    if DEBUG:
        print result
    text = result[1]
    clipboard.set_text(text)

def clipboard_to_pre_cb(widget):
    clipboard = gtk.clipboard_get(gtk.gdk.SELECTION_CLIPBOARD)
    clipboard.request_text(push_to_pre)

def push_to_pre(clipboard, text, data):
    pre = Popen(["/usr/local/bin/novacom/novacom", "put", "file:///tmp/webkit-clipboard"], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
    pre_output = pre.communicate(text)
    if DEBUG:
        print pre_output
    

def about_icon_cb(widget, data = None):
    msgBox = gtk.MessageDialog(parent = None, buttons = gtk.BUTTONS_OK, message_format = "WebOS Clipboard Agent\nVersion 1.1.0\nCopyright 2009, James Hines.")
    msgBox.run()
    msgBox.destroy()
    
statusIcon = gtk.StatusIcon()
    
menu = gtk.Menu()
menuItem = gtk.MenuItem(label = "Copy from Pre")
menuItem.connect('activate', pre_to_clipboard_cb)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.MenuItem(label = "Copy to Pre")
menuItem.connect('activate', clipboard_to_pre_cb)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.SeparatorMenuItem()
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_ABOUT)
menuItem.connect('activate', about_icon_cb)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_QUIT)
menuItem.connect('activate', quit_cb, statusIcon)
menu.append(menuItem)
    
statusIcon.set_from_stock(gtk.STOCK_PASTE)
statusIcon.set_tooltip("WebOS Clipboard Agent")
statusIcon.connect('popup-menu', popup_menu_cb, menu)
statusIcon.set_visible(True)
    
gtk.main()