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"Paste as keystrokes" on linux?
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I'm on Wayland these days, but if you happen to be using X11 this is the homebrew solution I used to use:
The
--delayargument specifies the delay in milliseconds between keystrokes; if you go too low on that it tends to break things.Interested to see what solrize comes up with because this method definitely has drawbacks -- no way to interrupt it and if you accidentally paste something large it takes a long time to finish due to the forced delays.
I've never really had the need for a Wayland version, but I don't see why subbing
ydotoolforxdotoolandwl-pasteforxclipwouldn't work.Good solution, cheers! I also followed the other commenter's idea to add it as a KDE shortcut so I can use it on demand.
I guess I'll just need to be careful not to paste a bazillion lines of text lol
If you pasted something long, you could possible switch to a terminal (ctrl+alt+f2 or something), and kill the process.
Or you could grab another machine, and ssh into yours to kill the process.
ydotool has lots of caveats because of wayland; your other examples work better imo.