mindgre.blogg.se - Quick text paste

At last, set a shortcut on newly created script.

Next you would need to save the content of the exampled script to a file and make it executable.

Pass saved and escaped variable as an argument to a browser and make sure that it pops up maximized in-front of other open programs by passing -window -maximize to a command line.

Make sure to really show the browser window (in my case Google Chrome) and not to run in background, by using xdotool.

Save your present clipboard data to CLIPBOARD variable, by running xsel -clipboard.

usr/bin/google-chrome "$" -window -maximize usr/bin/xdotool search -name "Google Chrome" windowactivate What we need, is a small utility called xsel and few lines in BASH script. It will help you to open a browser, paste text from your clipboard to Google Search - all with one little script, that can be and must be attached to a keyboard shortcut. The solution happen to be very easy and straight forward.