Copy image from command-line to clipboard

Question

Is there a way in a bash to copy a picture to the clipboard?

For example if there is a picture mypic.png I want to have a command like clipcopy mypic.png such that I can go for example to inkscape and paste it afterwards.

Answer 1

This python script by cheshirekow claims to do what you want.

#! /usr/bin/python
import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import os
import sys

def copy_image(f):
    assert os.path.exists(f), "file does not exist"
    image = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(f)

    clipboard = gtk.clipboard_get()
    clipboard.set_image(image)
    clipboard.store()

copy_image(sys.argv[1]);