piping to rofi or dmenu broken in 1.2.4

[magnetophon]

I use clipster trough rofi, with the command clipster -o -n 0 -0 | rofi -i -dmenu -sep '\x00' -eh 2 -p paste: | sed -ze 's/\n$//' | clipster.
On version 1.0.1 that worked just fine, but on 1.2.4 I get all the text overlaid on one line: https://imgur.com/a/QKpjT

Also more minimal versions fail in similar ways:
clipster -o -n 0 -0 | rofi -dmenu
clipster -o -n 0 -0 | dmenu

[mrichar1]

Hi,

Thanks for this report.

I'm trying to replicate what you're describing, but I'm not sure what you mean by 'text overlaid on one line.'

My test seems to work as expected:

>$ echo -e "cat\ndog\nfish\n\n" | clipster
(server:) DEBUG:[u'cat\ndog\nfish\n\n']

 $ clipster -o -n 0 -0 | rofi -i -dmenu -sep '\x00' -eh 2 -p paste: | sed -ze 's/\n$//'
<*select only item in rofi*>
cat
dog
fish

>$

Can you give me an example of the expected versus actual output you're seeing? Thanks!

[magnetophon]

Did you see the screenshot?

[magnetophon]

I just tried with 1.2.3, and that works fine too.

[mrichar1]

Hi - thanks for the screenshot and updates.

Turns out that in fixing a python 2 unicode bug in 1.2.4 I'd introduced a new one for python 3. py2 needs stringscontaining unicode explicitly encoding, but calling encode() on python3 strings converts them to bytes, which rofi doesn't cope with.

I've hopefully fixed this in ed205c6 - can you try 1.2.5 and let me know if you are still having issues. Thanks!

[magnetophon]

All good now!
Thank you!

[fourstepper]

@magnetophon Hi, how do you use the above? I tried to use your option in i3wm with rofi, got the menu up and running when I select one of the options it seems that nothing happens. clipster daemon is up and running

[magnetophon]

At the moment I'm using clipster trough fzf, for even better search capabilities and a nice preview window: https://github.com/magnetophon/.dot/blob/master/common/.local/bin/clipster_fzf.sh

[fourstepper]

Sorry for the ignorance, but how do I copy the output of the fuzzy find to my primary clipboard?

[magnetophon]

I think that's this line: https://github.com/magnetophon/.dot/blob/master/common/.config/clipster/clipster.ini#L13