On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> One idea would be to use a commandline utility that allows copying >>>> image files to the clipboard, and create a new converter from >>>> PDF(cropped) towards this utility. But so far I couldn't find anything >>>> for Linux, let alone cross-platform. Otherwise, I'm wondering if we >>>> have an LFUN that would provide this functionality. But I'm not sure >>>> how exactly that could work. >>> >>> Good idea Liviu. I recommend CopyQ if you want to implement this. It >>> works great on Linux, supposedly works on Windows, and support is >>> experimental on OS X 10.9+. The author of CopyQ is extremely >>> responsive to features and bug reports (he implemented a feature that >>> I'm pretty sure only I use, just for me). This is one of the best >>> clipboard managers out there (although note the focus is on features >>> over lightweight) but it is not well known. >>> >>> To put an image on the clipboard, you can do e.g. >>> copyq write image/svg - < image.svg >>> >> This looks very promising (although this is one seriously complicated >> clipboard manager). > > Yes, it is heavy and more complicated. If you want a lightweight and > quick clipboard manager, this is not for you. If you want one that you > can do whatever you want with and have a little time to spend to learn > it, it should be considered. > >> But I'm a bit lost as to how it works. Copy/paste >> text is a bit slow but works fine (v 2.0.1 on Xubuntu 12.04). > > Strange. I do not notice the "bit slow". Perhaps I just got used to > it, but I don't remember that. Slow in what? After you type copy c you > see a pause? or after copy v? Or after one of the commands we're > talking about? > After the 'v', but maybe it's just my system swapping.
>> But for >> images or pdf, I need to proceed as follows: >> copyq write image/png - < newfile2.png >> then I need to open CopyQ, select the item labeled 0, then hit the >> Move to Clipboard button. > > Try copyq write image/png - < newfile2.png && copyq select 0 > Aha! So that's how it's done. Then 'v' works fine in LyX. But also in Gimp and mtPaint. Cool. >> Now ctrl+v in LyX will paste the image (but >> this doesn't seem to work in LibO, though). > > LibO must not handle image/png (perhaps this should be requested of LibO). > LibO does seem to handle image/bmp > > So do > convert newfile2.png convert newfile2.bmp > copyq write image/bmp - < newfile2.bmp && copyq select 0 > > Now it will paste into LibO. > Oh, nice to know. (And how strange of LibO!) > By the way, how did I find out that bmp will work? > Not smoothly. :) I ended up with a black box in LibO. Thanks, Liviu > I copied an image > in Chromium by right-clicking and going to "copy image". > I then tried to paste it in LibO. It worked. I opened up CopyQ (by > clicking on show/hide in the tray icon). I right-clicked on the > picture item (which should display as an actual picture) and clicked > on "Show Content". Then in the left column under "Formats" you will > see all of the MIME types. These are all of the types that LibO can > choose from when it receives a paste. I guessed that it went for the > bmp. > > If you have any other questions, consider the CopyQ google group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/copyq > It looks lonely there but that's just because no one is asking > questions. When someone does, Lukas is very quick. > > Scott -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
