Class Clipboard

Namespace

Terminal.Gui

Assembly

Terminal.Gui.dll

Provides cut, copy, and paste support for the OS clipboard.

public static class Clipboard

Inheritance

object

Clipboard

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Remarks

On Windows, the Clipboard class uses the Windows Clipboard APIs via P/Invoke.

On Linux, when not running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), the Clipboard class uses the xclip command line tool. If xclip is not installed, the clipboard will not work.

On Linux, when running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), the Clipboard class launches Windows' powershell.exe via WSL interop and uses the "Set-Clipboard" and "Get-Clipboard" Powershell CmdLets.

On the Mac, the Clipboard class uses the MacO OS X pbcopy and pbpaste command line tools and the Mac clipboard APIs vai P/Invoke.

Properties

Contents

Gets (copies from) or sets (pastes to) the contents of the OS clipboard.

IsSupported

Returns true if the environmental dependencies are in place to interact with the OS clipboard.

Methods

TryGetClipboardData(out string)

Copies the _contents of the OS clipboard to result if possible.

TrySetClipboardData(string)

Pastes the text to the OS clipboard if possible.