Native Wayland clipboard change detection for the Clipman clipboard manager. Listens to Meta.Selection owner-changed signals and forwards clipboard content to the Clipman daemon via D-Bus. Provides paste simulation and window positioning services. Requires the Clipman daemon (clipman.service) to be running.
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No, this is not AI-generated. I wrote this extension as part of Clipman, my clipboard manager. I can explain every part of it: - owner-changed signal on Meta.Selection detects clipboard changes without polling - D-Bus interface exposes SimulatePaste (virtual keyboard via Clutter) and MoveWindowToCursor for the Python daemon to call - _getClipboardText tries MIME types in priority order for XWayland compatibility - _sendToDaemon forwards clipboard content over session D-Bus to the Python backend Happy to clarify anything specific.
Where is the git repo? and why aren't you using `St.Clipboard.get_default().get_text()` instead of `_getClipboardText()`?
Repo: https://github.com/MohammedEl-sayedAhmed/clipman I use get_content() with a MIME type fallback chain instead of get_text() for XWayland compatibility. get_text() only reads text/plain;charset=utf-8, but many XWayland apps (VSCode, Electron) only expose UTF8_STRING or STRING. The fallback chain in _getClipboardText() tries text/plain;charset=utf-8 → UTF8_STRING → text/plain → STRING to ensure clipboard content is captured from all apps.
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Clipman Clipboard Monitor