Windows implementation of passwordstore in pure batch

[Kenny Evitt]

I just checked the `Ubuntu` app on my Windows box and the output of `uname`
remains `Linux`.

Here are the previous threads from the archives:

 - https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2017-July/002987.html
 -
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2017-November/003133.html
 - https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2018-January/003164.html
 - https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2018-April/003240.html

Here's a GitHub issue (for myself) for this:

 - [Get this merged upstream · Issue #2 · kenny-evitt/password-store-buw](
https://github.com/kenny-evitt/password-store-buw/issues/2)

There are two major issues still:

 1. `uname` in the Windows Ubuntu app still outputs `Linux`.
 2. There's no builtin support for arbitrary data in the Windows clipboard.
Every single possible file/data format would have to be supported
individually (AFAICT). This means only text data, already on the clipboard,
can be restored (after Pass clears a copied password from the clipboard).

For [1], it just occurred to me that maybe there's a way to just add the
Windows clipboard support to the existing `linux.sh` script.

Jason – how do you feel about that?

For [2], maybe there's a relatively simple way to just read and write the
clipboard data as generic binary data.

Jason – would you accept patches for this if this could *only* support
restoring *text* data to the Windows clipboard?

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 4:35 PM Tobias Girstmair <t-passwd at girst.at> wrote:

> (apologies, sent from a wrong/nonexistent email address before)
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:21:55PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > I wonder if in the
> > intervening years a reliable non-kludgy detection mechanism has been
> > discovered.
>
> what about env vars? I've got XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 and
> XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=i3
> (and a bunch of other XDG_* ones) on my system.
>
> according to a quick search[1], this hasn't been discussed before.
>
> [1]:
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Alists.zx2c4.com%2Fpipermail%2Fpassword-store+%22xdg_session_type%22
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