I was wondering if it is possible to add a keybind to paste the x-clipboard in Lubuntu.
(primary selection)

If possible to keybind it, would you still be able to use the middle-click too?
Is there perhaps a clipboard manager that supports this?

Thanks in advance,
Zarnaik

Edit: Thanks to Kupiakos for providing a solution. I have not tested it in Ubuntu, Lubuntu only.


This is how I did it.

First run

sudo apt-get install xsel xvkbd

to install the necessary packages. Then open the openbox configuration file as so

gedit ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

replacing gedit by whatever text-editor you use.


Once inside the file look for the <keyboard> tag and add the below code.

<keybind key="W-v">

  <action name="Execute">

<command>sh -c 'xsel | xvkbd -xsendevent -file -'</command>

  </action>

</keybind>

I configured it to work with Super + v, but you can easily adjust that. Save the file and make openbox notice the change by executing

openbox --reconfigure

That's all there is to it.

Again thanks to Kupiakos for providing the command that I still fail to understand.