[FEATURE REQUEST] Auto-Copy to Clipboard

[JosTheDude]

Hey! I don't know too much C but love Swappy's functionality and simplicity so figured I'd make a feature request here and possibly attempt a PR with my (limited) C knowledge later on if it's not possible.

Essentially, similar to ShareX for a config option to have screenshots with swappy automatically copied to the clipboard and not open the panel unless the notification is clicked / hotkey is run.

[jtheoof]

Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not sure this would be particularly useful. There are other tools to that. Plus the notification has been removed some time ago and once swappy is closed there is no way to bring it back up besides creating a new instance.

[JosTheDude]

Hey! Thanks for the quick reply.

May I ask what other tools support this that you may know of?

I just figured just insta-copying to clipboard once an SS is made may make things easier for people; as I typically just close the panel after copying so just closing it and knowing it's in my clipboard. Essentially would be more of a QoL change.

But regardless, pretty fine without it regardless as it's quite minor, no harm in asking though.

Thank you for the awesome tool!

[ConstBur]

I'd love to have this feature, even without the notification popup, for e.g. a keyboard shortcut.
I used to set one up for KDE's Spectacle like so: "spectacle -rbcn" (rectangle region, background, copy to clipboard, no notification), which is essentially what @JosTheDude suggested.

[tkna91]

After outputting the file, it can be copied as follows

wl-copy < $file

[kadamski]

@JosTheDude Since swappy is not a screenshot taking (just screenshot editing) too, this can already be done without any changes to swappy. Simply run the script like this to capture the screenshot:

#!/bin/bash
TIMEOUT_SEC=30
FILENAME="$(mktemp)"
trap "rm ${FILENAME}" EXIT
$(grim -g "$(slurp)" ${FILENAME}) && wl-copy < ${FILENAME} && [ "$(dunstify -t $((TIMEOUT_SEC*1000)) -A click,click 'Screenshot' 'Click to open swappy')" -eq 2 ] && swappy -f ${FILENAME}

[markstos]

Swappy can already be run to automatically copy to clipboard by using Unix pipes. Swappy saves the image to STDOUT, while wl-copy reads it from STDIN:

swappy -f in.jpg --output-file - | wl-copy