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  • Introduction to Autokey for Wayland
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    • clipboard API
      • clipboard API for Wayland environments
      • clipboard API for the autokey-gtk application on X11
      • clipboard API for the autokey-qt application on X11
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  • Availability of the AutoKey Scripting API Methods Under X11 and Wayland
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clipboard API

There are three different implementations of the “clipboard” class, one for the Wayland environment, and two for the X11 environment: one for the “autokey-gtk” application and one for the “autokey-qt” application. The API methods are almost identical in each.

  • clipboard API for Wayland environments
    • WaylandClipboard
      • WaylandClipboard.fill_clipboard()
      • WaylandClipboard.fill_selection()
      • WaylandClipboard.get_clipboard()
      • WaylandClipboard.get_selection()
      • WaylandClipboard.set_clipboard_image()
  • clipboard API for the autokey-gtk application on X11
    • GtkClipboard
      • GtkClipboard.fill_clipboard()
      • GtkClipboard.fill_selection()
      • GtkClipboard.get_clipboard()
      • GtkClipboard.get_selection()
      • GtkClipboard.set_clipboard_image()
  • clipboard API for the autokey-qt application on X11
    • QtClipboard
      • QtClipboard.fill_clipboard()
      • QtClipboard.fill_selection()
      • QtClipboard.get_clipboard()
      • QtClipboard.get_selection()
      • QtClipboard.sem
      • QtClipboard.set_clipboard_image()
      • QtClipboard.text
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