gopass show can't copy to clipboard from WSL

[slokhorst]

I'm using gopass in an WSL 2 instance (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This works great with one exception: every time I run gopass generate test it says:

Error: failed to copy to clipboard: failed to write to clipboard: exit status 1

I found that it is possible to copy text to the clipboard with echo 'test' | clip.exe (src), but I'd understand if this is too niche to implement in gopass.

As an alternative, maybe would be a sane default to just print the generated password if copying to the clipboard fails?

Windows 10 20H2 with WSL2
Ubuntu 20.04.1
gopass 1.9.0

[AnomalRoil]

Did you try installing `xclip` on your WSL? Does it work with it? We could give it a try. Since WSL doesn't support hardware PGP tokens, it's low priority for now, but this might happen next year.

[slokhorst]

Yes, I already have xclip installed. Still doesn't work unfortunately.

[AnomalRoil]

The easiest way for us is to wait until support for WSL is added to atotto/clipboard ^

[dominikschulz]

Yes, I think we need to wait for atotto/clipboard#45 to be resolved.

[Hazegard]

Hi!

As a workaround I have this little script called xclip in my PATH:

#!/bin/bash
cat | clip.exe

It works enough to have passwords and otp codes in my windows clipboard.

[AnomalRoil]

That's a nice workaround, indeed. 😄

[slokhorst]

@Hazegard that works great, thanks!

[AnomalRoil]

We might consider switching to https://github.com/golang-design/clipboard which is reported to work with WSL on windows.

[dominikschulz]

No, that's using CGo. We can not introduce CGo dependencies with our current build system.