[pass] [PATCH] Added Parcellite clipboard manager support.

[Michael Traxler]

this feature would also be very useful for my workflow.
Just to back the proposal to add this to password-store.

Michael

On Sonntag 2016-02-14 21:41, Andrew Todd wrote:

>Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:41:17
>From: Andrew Todd <at at auspicacious.org>
>To: password-store at lists.zx2c4.com
>Subject: Re: [pass] [PATCH] Added Parcellite clipboard manager support.
>
> Since it looks like Jason has been monitoring more actively, I hope no-one
> minds if I re-submit this simple patch from last year.
>
> Parcellite is a standalone clipboard manager with a nice (if
> underdocumented)
> feature: it can be turned on and off through a fifo control. This patch
> turns
> off parcellite just before copying a password to the clipboard, and turns it
> back on once the clipboard has been reset.
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Andrew Todd <at at auspicacious.org> wrote:
>
>> ---
>>  src/password-store.sh | 9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/password-store.sh b/src/password-store.sh
>> index d535a74..42708b7 100755
>> --- a/src/password-store.sh
>> +++ b/src/password-store.sh
>> @@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ clip() {
>>         # This base64 business is because bash cannot store binary data in
>> a shell
>>         # variable. Specifically, it cannot store nulls nor (non-trivally)
>> store
>>         # trailing new lines.
>> +
>> +       # If the parcellite clipboard manager is installed, disable it for
>> +       # the duration. It will never record the password.
>> +       echo -n "stop_all" >> "$HOME"/.local/share/parcellite/fifo_cmd
>> +
>>         local sleep_argv0="password store sleep on display $DISPLAY"
>>         pkill -f "^$sleep_argv0" 2>/dev/null && sleep 0.5
>>         local before="$(xclip -o -selection "$X_SELECTION" 2>/dev/null |
>> base64)"
>> @@ -150,6 +155,10 @@ clip() {
>>                 qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper
>> org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistory &>/dev/null
>>
>>                 echo "$before" | base64 -d | xclip -selection
>> "$X_SELECTION"
>> +
>> +               # If the parcellite clipboard manager is installed,
>> re-enable
>> +               # it so it will continue recording normal history.
>> +               echo -n "run_all" >>
>> "$HOME"/.local/share/parcellite/fifo_cmd
>>         ) 2>/dev/null & disown
>>         echo "Copied $2 to clipboard. Will clear in $CLIP_TIME seconds."
>>  }
>> --
>> 2.1.4
>>
>>
>