Ignore clipboard items from pass?

[therockmandolinist]

Hi,

 

I was  wondering if there's a way to get Alfred to either a) ignore clipboard items from the pass password manager or b ) respect that they should be temporary.

 

Thanks!

[deanishe]

Alfred Preferences > Features > Clipboard > Advanced

 

There's a list of applications to ignore.

[therockmandolinist]

Well, pass is a command line utility, so I'm not sure that works in this case?

[therockmandolinist]

In any case, even a feature to toggle Alfred clipboard saving would be handy, though I'm not aware of one.

[Vero]

@therockmandolinist Taking a quick look at Pass, if the app itself can't be added, you may need to add Terminal to Alfred's ignore list if you'd like the app to be ignored altogether.

 

The best way for this to be handled, however, is that if Pass copies items directly to the clipboard, these should be marked as transient by Pass, so that Alfred and any other clipboard managers know to ignore them.

 

Cheers,
Vero

[deanishe]

It's also fairly straightforward to put the text on the clipboard yourself.

[therockmandolinist]

@Vero adding the terminal application (iTerm in this case) doesn't quite work, since pass uses pbcopy internally (though I'm afraid i don't have a great understanding beyond that, here's the source code).

 

Is there a more specific definition to "marked as transient"? I think it just waits 45 seconds and then deletes from the clipboard, which evidently doesn't delete it from the Alfred clipboard.

 

@deanishe i'm not sure I understand what you mean by this.

[deanishe]

I mean it's pretty simple to write a program that puts text on the clipboard and marks it as transient.

[Andrew]

@therockmandolinist Here is the site describing transients: http://nspasteboard.org

 

Alfred ignores the clipboard if one of the data representations in the clipboard is of type "org.nspasteboard.TransientType".

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[nilsdog]

@deanishe I'm using Rocket to shorthand enter emojis (typing after a colon). The rocket app is not focusable, but it evidently uses the clipboard to paste the searched emojis.

 

Is there a way to mark Rocket's activity as transient?

[deanishe]

3 hours ago, nilsdog said:

Is there a way to mark Rocket's activity as transient?

 

No. You need to contact the application's developer and ask them to make the app tag the data it puts on the clipboard appropriately.