X Clipboard Cleaner

Ever copy/paste from a web page and have the web page's style mess up the document you are pasting into?

That's pretty common for me.

Chrome/Firefox both preserve HTML style when copying text to the clipboard, and the following are common targets:

• email
• HTML-enabled editor widget
• word processor document

My old process was:

1. copy text/link from web page
2. open up a text editor
3. paste inside the text editor
4. copy the same text again, this time without the style
5. paste into the target location

I finally got sick of doing this manually all the time, so I wrote a script and put it in my app launcher bar.

Here is a gist with a script you can download:

	#!/bin/bash
	xclip -o -selection clipboard > /tmp/clipboard
	cat /tmp/clipboard | xclip -i -selection clipboard
	rm -f /tmp/clipboard

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	# put this in ~/.local/share/applications to get this on your menu
	[Desktop Entry]
	Exec=/home/sumsionjg/bin/xclip-cleanse
	GenericName=Clipboard Cleanser
	#Icon=?
	Name=Clipboard Cleanser
	Path=
	StartupNotify=false
	Terminal=false
	Type=Application
	Categories=Utility

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