Bash, the Clipboard and Popup menus

Today I’ll be briefly touching upon ways to send text to clipboard from Bash, and to Open Popup windows.

Bash and the Clipboard

To copy to clipboard, you may use xclip (Or xsel).

The format is:

To send to primary clipboard (Middle click pastes this content)

echo "Something" | xclip[/code]

To send to secondary clipboard (Rightclick and Choose Paste to paste)
echo "Something else" | xclip -selection clipboard[/code]

Bash and Popups
Install zenity
sudo apt-get install zenity[/code]

Informational popups:
zenity --info --text 'Hello World!'[/code]

 
Dialog options
--calendar

Display calendar dialog
--entry

Display text entry dialog
--error

Display error dialog
--file-selection

Display file selection dialog
--info Display info dialog
--list Display list dialog
--notification

Display notification
--progress

Display progress indication dialog
--question

Display question dialog
--text-info

Display text information dialog
--warning

Display warning dialog
--scale

Display scale dialog
--color-selection

Display color selection dialog
General options
--title=TITLE

Set the dialog title
--window-icon=ICONPATH

Set the window icon with the path to an image. Alternatively, one of the four stock icons can be used: 'error', 'info', 'question' or 'warning'