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X11 / Wayland "Type for me" instead of pasting the clipboard. Good for services that don't accept CTRL-V
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#!/bin/sh
# Hint: Wayland uses ydotool instead
# FYI: Multiline a special thing, because keyboard do not send the newline style that Linux wants
# To workaround that tr and sed are in place
# I bind that command to shift-alt-N because that's neither occupied by a Windows nor a KDE default hotkey.
xdotool sleep 0.100 type --clearmodifiers -- "$(xsel -bo | tr \\n \\r | sed s/\\r*\$//)"
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