Paste image from clipboard

[plundration]

Is it currently possible to somehow paste an image from the clipboard? Like when copying from a browser? I know there is a yank-to-clipboard plugin, but I couldn't find anything about pasting. This would be a great feature to add, I use it a lot in graphical file explorers.

[AnirudhG07]

It would be better to extend from not just image but to any file(including images) present in clipboard to here. ill look into it, sounds nice(afaik it is not implemented as a plugin)

[Vaisakhkm2625]

i assume supporting a lot of filetypes also going to be difficult, especially on linux,

• in wayland, i remember issue of doesn't allow pasting to to unfocused windows.. wl-clipboard does some witchcraft workarounds under the hood though..
• file formats/mimetypes for same type of file differ between different types for file managers....
  i copied exact same file from thunar and Dolphin,

❮ wl-paste --list-types
text/uri-list
x-special/gnome-copied-files
text/plain;charset=utf-8
UTF8_STRING

❯ wl-paste --list-types
text/uri-list
application/x-kde4-urilist
application/vnd.portal.filetransfer

as you can see, gtk file managers add x-special/gnome-copied-files while dolphin adds application/x-kde4-urilist

[Tahinli]

Do we have any update about it ?

[chea-vuthearith]

if anyone still needs this

# keymap.toml

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on   = "P"
run  = "shell -- wl-paste > pasted-image.png"
desc = "Paste image from clipboard"

[sohanemon]

its not working in tmux for me

[chea-vuthearith]

apologies for not mentioning but the cmd above is for wayland, if youre on x11 maybe try replacing wl-paste with

xclip -selection clipboard -o

[sohanemon]

I'm on Hyprland; it's based on Wayland.

I found it works if I'm outside of tmux, but it fails to work inside tmux.

[boydaihungst]

Here you go, doesn't need to install any 3rd party app: https://github.com/boydaihungst/save-clipboard-to-file.yazi