Is there a way to set a shortcut-key for copying a text format of current date and time of KDE environment's calender?
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You want a keyboard shortcut that copies the current date and time to the clipboard? – Seth Nov 14 '13 at 03:40
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yep. – Minimus Heximus Nov 14 '13 at 03:43
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Why do you intend to use KDE Calendar for such a simple task? Why not to define a global shortcut
System Setting › Shortcuts and Gestures › Custom Shortcuts › Edit › New › Global Shortcut › Command / URL
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date | xsel -i -b
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You may use any imaginable date format if default (Fri Dec 20 09:33:37 MSK 2013)
does not suite you, see date(1). E. g. date '+%F %T' will generate lexicographically sortable 2013-12-20 09:33:59.
Instead of xsel -i -b you also can use xclip -i -selection clipboard.
I assume you want to copy to CLIPBOARD. Use just xsel -i or xclip -i if you want to put date to PRIMARY selection.
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date(1)is reference to the man page. Use$ man datecommand or man:/date(1) URL in Konqueror. – Dmitry Alexandrov Dec 20 '13 at 05:49 -
I want KDE Calender because it has a local calender. btw, thanks this can be helpful and even more if you add a command for an immediate paste after copy. – Minimus Heximus Dec 20 '13 at 16:10
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Thanks to Dmitry Alexandrov's answer above and wilf's answer, one can also set this command (as in answer above):
date '+%A, %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S' | xsel -i -b && xdotool type ' ' && xdotool key ctrl+v BackSpace && xdotool type ' '
which will copy and then immediately paste a format of date and time. Hotkey 'F8' seems to be appropriate and works for me:
Saturday, 2013/12/21 02:00:27 (other hotkeys may interfere with xdotool).
Copying KDE date and time format is unsolved yet.
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