Augment clipmenu KBD to paste-in-place

Introduces the `xdotool` dependency, which is a way to simulate X window events
from the CLI.
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William Carroll 2019-04-02 21:27:47 +01:00
parent 7646143843
commit c88f3da4ac

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@ -80,7 +80,11 @@ bindsym $mod+n exec st -e lf ~/Downloads
# NOTE: Ctrl-c is already covered since `clipmenu` listens for X clipboard
# events using `clipnotify`.
# NOTE: `clipmenud` is started in `.xsessionrc.shared`
bindsym Ctrl+$mod+v exec clipmenu
# NOTE: This is a bit of a hack intended to support pasting in both the terminal
# and in GUI applications. `st` expects `ctrl+Shift+v` while GUIs expect
# `ctrl+v`. In the instances where GUIs don't support `ctrl+Shift+v` already, it
# acts like `ctrl+v`, so it should "just work".
bindsym Ctrl+$mod+v exec clipmenu && xdotool key --clearmodifiers ctrl+Shift+v
# Screenshot
# TODO: find a better KBD for this