CLIPBOARD ANDROID - LINUX SHARED

[v8karlo]

Still using udroid 21.04 with Termux-x11 which don't have Clipboard
Andoid - Linux sharing abilities .

Tried with Termux API termux-clipboard-get and set without any luck .

How to implement clipboard share ?

[SaicharanKandukuri]

Clipboard in termux-x11 need a lots of implementations
Need a broker that can watch, get clipboard from android and also paste them in udroid ( or any linux env )

Apps like Bvnc did this and termux-x11 is so far.

[SaicharanKandukuri]

And in traditional vnc tigervnc+Bvnc is the broker and in termux-x11 none Exists

[v8karlo]

Without watch broker for now .

termux-clipboard-get can get Android clipboard into termux, that part is ok .

How to paste clipboard from termux into linux distro ?

[SaicharanKandukuri]

sorry it may take more time
but here is my idea
as termux-clipboard-get can get us the clipboard content of the last copied text we can use this to redirect to a file
in the udroid side, we mount the file at login and add a service to look for changes in the mounted file and add content to the clipboard buffer in Linux ( with xclip )

for better usability clipboard manager like clipman takes care of additional GUI based clipboard item selection

[v8karlo]

Very good !

So, we program at the udroid side !

I was thinking to cut out entirely watch loop.

Intercept the paste event in linux. When paste occur trigger termux-clipboard-get and get the content of Android clipboard .

1 . If the returned content from Android is same as the last one, copy in Android is not used and do not copy
the Android clip into Linux clip, but use whatever is on the Linux clipboard at the moment . Do nothing !
2 . If the returned content from Android is different than last one, means clipboard in Android is new and needs to be copy
into Linux clipboard and pasted in Linux .

The idea is to use paste in Linux for trigger,
and from returned content from Android determine
was it in Android something new copied from last time ,
and if it was push that into Linux clipboard .

For copy in linux, copy will trigger - pass the content via termux-clipboard-set to Android
every time . Also copy that into last get from Android to prevent copy back to linux .
Because if the get from Android and last get same do nothing, do not copy from Android in case of paste trigger .

App will be on linux side running .
No need for watch loop !

Opinion, what you say ?

A little bit of programming is nedeed and knowledge how to pass text to terminal
and vice versa in Linux .

[SaicharanKandukuri]

Well termux clipboard tools returns last clipboard content and your idea is good too but problem occurs when user copied two times and want two items to show up in display session

[v8karlo]

Yea this is solution for only one . One very simple .

[v8karlo]

Anyway, thanks, things are much clearer now !

[SaicharanKandukuri]

Here is the first working prototype

2022_04_17_10_17_33.mp4

its working well

[SaicharanKandukuri]

copied link address from browser showed in udroid

[AnninoDr4]

Nice

[v8karlo]

How to start the shared clipboard ?

Thanks !

[SaicharanKandukuri]

i thought to stop working on clipboard-service we planned another rework on udroid scripts
and termux-x11 is gone unstable again ( kinda! )