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feature request: global custom keystroke for paste with sendkeys,

Open kbirger opened this issue 5 months ago • 3 comments

I just found the custom keystrokes feature in the documentation, and it's almost exactly what I need. Only, the occurrence of such applications that would require it is fairly rare and one-off for me, so it would be really helpful to either have a special global hotkey for this, or a menu option to trigger it. In fact, in some cases it's not the application, but a web application running in the browser. For example, I do some remote administration tasks with noVNC, which runs in the browser, but does not forward clipboard to the target machine.

kbirger avatar Jul 03 '25 13:07 kbirger

@kbirger: What do you mean by "sendkeys", and which version does this affect?

Chealer avatar Sep 24 '25 12:09 Chealer

I guess the proper name of the windows API is SendInput.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-sendinput

Basically, not every application supports clipboard, so it would be great to have a way to simulate keystrokes for plaintext clipboard items.

kbirger avatar Sep 24 '25 12:09 kbirger

@kbirger: This is an ITS. Is this relevant to a current Ditto version, and if so, is this not a duplicate of #100?

Chealer avatar Sep 24 '25 12:09 Chealer