How to allow \ characters to be copied

[Kommynct]

my xwayland clipboard is broken for a specific app, i run

copyq copy "$(xclip -o)" ; copyq clipboard | xclip -i

when ctrl+c is used on the app, essentially, however, this setup gets rid of , is there any way around that?

[hluk]

CopyQ handles escape sequences in arguments (for example, \n would be translated to a line break), unless you put the arguments after --. So the first command would be copyq copy -- "$(xclip -o)".

But a better solution is to pass data to the standard input (as with xclip):

xclip -o | copyq copy -

[Kommynct]

Thank you so much!