Add Custom Actions upon copying/selecting

[jvonhoff]

When copying some text/image, filter it through a regex to then run a bash one-liner

Xfce's Clipman

The Xfce panel plugin Clipman is where I first used this functionality, and found it very useful -- the ability to simply select or copy some text, and then have clipman pop up a small "Actions" dialog to ask what I want to do with it.

Use Case 1

• Flipping through IMDb, I get interested in Baby Driver: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3890160/
• I copy the URL from Firefox
• My IMDb Action regex matches with https?:\/\/.*\.imdb\.com\/title\/tt([0-9]{4,})\/ (note that I'm capturing the 4+ digit IMDb identifier
• A popup shows "Find in Radarr", with a bash one-liner that says "firefox https://my.radarr.lan/add/new?term=imdb:$1" (or maybe it's \1?)

Use Case 2

• Installed a new app, but hate the icon. Downloaded a nicer image icon, but it doesn't match my icon theme.
• Select the icon image filename & copy it
• My Local Image regex matches with (.*Downloads\/.*\.jpg|png|JPEG)
• A popup shows "Iconify", with a bash script that uses imagemagick, etc. to resize, round corners, etc. and save the new icon.

[SUPERCILEX]

This sounds like a super cool idea, but I'll have to think on it some more. Right now, I'm leaning towards saying this should be a separate extension entirely since this feature has nothing to do with the history.

[jvonhoff]

Completely understand -- this really has nothing to do with history, so I get where you're coming from there. I do hope you'll consider it, though, as I think it's a powerful feature that (AFAIK) isn't found in any other Gnome extensions. But, if you do decide that it should be another extension, I might try my hand at porting the clipman code over, and see how that goes. Thanks!

[CristianKerr]

@jvonhoff you may want to look into copyq application. It can do what you need. However, it doesn't work well with wayland, that's why I stopped using it, but if you are still on x11 you may want to give it a look.