How is coloured text stored in the clipboard?
I've been using xclip to copy text to and from terminal. I was curious how it would handle coloured text from non-terminal applications such as google docs, and libreoffice
When copying from one of these document editors to another the text colour remains, however when I use xclip -o --clipboard there doesn't seem to be any attributes or escape codes to the copied text; only the copied text is displayed.
This makes sense for most uses, you wouldn't want random escape sequences or attributes appearing within your copied text. Except when you do.
I've also tried copying some red text and then directing xclip output to a .doc file which is otherwise able to support coloured text -xclip likely does not support it.
My subsequent question is, how (if at all) can I access/view the escape sequences/colour attributes/other-representation associated with coloured text -in the clipboard?
I'm aware that terminal colour to terminal colour typically uses ANSI set graphics mode escape sequences e.g. 33[1m for bold, while doc/text editors probably use a different standard.
Think this is more an X thing than terminal thing, but in case it matters I tested & found similar behaviour on xfce4-terminal & gnome-terminal.
linux terminal xorg colors clipboard
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
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I've been using xclip to copy text to and from terminal. I was curious how it would handle coloured text from non-terminal applications such as google docs, and libreoffice
When copying from one of these document editors to another the text colour remains, however when I use xclip -o --clipboard there doesn't seem to be any attributes or escape codes to the copied text; only the copied text is displayed.
This makes sense for most uses, you wouldn't want random escape sequences or attributes appearing within your copied text. Except when you do.
I've also tried copying some red text and then directing xclip output to a .doc file which is otherwise able to support coloured text -xclip likely does not support it.
My subsequent question is, how (if at all) can I access/view the escape sequences/colour attributes/other-representation associated with coloured text -in the clipboard?
I'm aware that terminal colour to terminal colour typically uses ANSI set graphics mode escape sequences e.g. 33[1m for bold, while doc/text editors probably use a different standard.
Think this is more an X thing than terminal thing, but in case it matters I tested & found similar behaviour on xfce4-terminal & gnome-terminal.
linux terminal xorg colors clipboard
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
Checked the source code? Everything should be right there, in xclip &/or your desktop
– Xen2050
Jan 29 at 9:35
@Xen2050 looking at the source didn't reveal anything to suggest attributes were being stripped. I'd be willing to hack at xlib to get something working, but without knowing the standards associated with the behaviour I doubt I'd achieve much.
– Anroca
Jan 30 at 0:33
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I've been using xclip to copy text to and from terminal. I was curious how it would handle coloured text from non-terminal applications such as google docs, and libreoffice
When copying from one of these document editors to another the text colour remains, however when I use xclip -o --clipboard there doesn't seem to be any attributes or escape codes to the copied text; only the copied text is displayed.
This makes sense for most uses, you wouldn't want random escape sequences or attributes appearing within your copied text. Except when you do.
I've also tried copying some red text and then directing xclip output to a .doc file which is otherwise able to support coloured text -xclip likely does not support it.
My subsequent question is, how (if at all) can I access/view the escape sequences/colour attributes/other-representation associated with coloured text -in the clipboard?
I'm aware that terminal colour to terminal colour typically uses ANSI set graphics mode escape sequences e.g. 33[1m for bold, while doc/text editors probably use a different standard.
Think this is more an X thing than terminal thing, but in case it matters I tested & found similar behaviour on xfce4-terminal & gnome-terminal.
linux terminal xorg colors clipboard
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
I've been using xclip to copy text to and from terminal. I was curious how it would handle coloured text from non-terminal applications such as google docs, and libreoffice
When copying from one of these document editors to another the text colour remains, however when I use xclip -o --clipboard there doesn't seem to be any attributes or escape codes to the copied text; only the copied text is displayed.
This makes sense for most uses, you wouldn't want random escape sequences or attributes appearing within your copied text. Except when you do.
I've also tried copying some red text and then directing xclip output to a .doc file which is otherwise able to support coloured text -xclip likely does not support it.
My subsequent question is, how (if at all) can I access/view the escape sequences/colour attributes/other-representation associated with coloured text -in the clipboard?
I'm aware that terminal colour to terminal colour typically uses ANSI set graphics mode escape sequences e.g. 33[1m for bold, while doc/text editors probably use a different standard.
Think this is more an X thing than terminal thing, but in case it matters I tested & found similar behaviour on xfce4-terminal & gnome-terminal.
linux terminal xorg colors clipboard
linux terminal xorg colors clipboard
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
asked Jan 29 at 1:27
AnrocaAnroca
611
611
Checked the source code? Everything should be right there, in xclip &/or your desktop
– Xen2050
Jan 29 at 9:35
@Xen2050 looking at the source didn't reveal anything to suggest attributes were being stripped. I'd be willing to hack at xlib to get something working, but without knowing the standards associated with the behaviour I doubt I'd achieve much.
– Anroca
Jan 30 at 0:33
add a comment |
Checked the source code? Everything should be right there, in xclip &/or your desktop
– Xen2050
Jan 29 at 9:35
@Xen2050 looking at the source didn't reveal anything to suggest attributes were being stripped. I'd be willing to hack at xlib to get something working, but without knowing the standards associated with the behaviour I doubt I'd achieve much.
– Anroca
Jan 30 at 0:33
Checked the source code? Everything should be right there, in xclip &/or your desktop
– Xen2050
Jan 29 at 9:35
Checked the source code? Everything should be right there, in xclip &/or your desktop
– Xen2050
Jan 29 at 9:35
@Xen2050 looking at the source didn't reveal anything to suggest attributes were being stripped. I'd be willing to hack at xlib to get something working, but without knowing the standards associated with the behaviour I doubt I'd achieve much.
– Anroca
Jan 30 at 0:33
@Xen2050 looking at the source didn't reveal anything to suggest attributes were being stripped. I'd be willing to hack at xlib to get something working, but without knowing the standards associated with the behaviour I doubt I'd achieve much.
– Anroca
Jan 30 at 0:33
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Checked the source code? Everything should be right there, in xclip &/or your desktop
– Xen2050
Jan 29 at 9:35
@Xen2050 looking at the source didn't reveal anything to suggest attributes were being stripped. I'd be willing to hack at xlib to get something working, but without knowing the standards associated with the behaviour I doubt I'd achieve much.
– Anroca
Jan 30 at 0:33