urxvt-remote-clipboard(1)

🎀 remote-clipboard(1) 🎀

okay so this is the urxvt-remote-clipboard manual page from RXVT-UNICODE, bestie, and it's all about managing a shared and possibly remote clipboard. literally the group chat of clipboards. let's go.

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✨ NAME ✨

remote-clipboard — manage a shared and possibly remote clipboard.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the name is somewhat of a misnomer, ngl. this extension adds two menu entries to the selection popup, and those let you run external commands to store the selection somewhere and fetch it again. iconic.

we use it to implement a "distributed selection mechanism", which just means one command uploads the file to a remote server, and another reads it. no cap.

the commands can be set using the URxvt.remote-selection.store and URxvt.remote-selection.fetch resources. the first one should read the selection to store from STDIN (always in UTF-8), and the second one should provide the selection data on STDOUT (also in UTF-8). periodt.

the defaults — which are likely useless to you 🙈 — use rsh and cat:

URxvt.remote-selection.store: rsh ruth 'cat >/tmp/distributed-selection'
URxvt.remote-selection.fetch: rsh ruth 'cat /tmp/distributed-selection'

⚠️ heads up, bestie: the page straight-up says those defaults are likely useless to you, so don't be surprised if you need to swap in your own commands.

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that's the whole vibe 💖 version 9.31, dated 2023-12-02, from the urxvt-remote-clipboard(1) manual. go sync those selections, queen 👑✨