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This adds OSC 52 clipboard support when Mostrix is running on Linux without DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY.

The existing X11/Wayland clipboard behavior remains unchanged.

Use case

When running Mostrix on a headless Linux server over SSH, pressing c to copy an invoice does not work because arboard has no graphical clipboard available.

This change detects that no X11/Wayland display is available and uses OSC 52 to send the clipboard contents through the terminal instead.

Tested with

  • Ubuntu 24.04 headless server
  • SSH
  • Windows Terminal
  • Successfully copied a Lightning invoice from Mostrix to the local Windows clipboard

Validation

  • cargo build --release passes
  • cargo test passes
  • Existing X11/Wayland clipboard path remains unchanged

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Clipboard copying now works in Linux terminal environments without a configured graphical display by using terminal clipboard support.
    • Clipboard success or failure continues to be reported through the existing result indicator.

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Linux clipboard copying now uses OSC 52 through stdout when no display is configured. Sessions with DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY retain the background clipboard worker path.

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Clipboard handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Clipboard copy path selection
src/ui/key_handler/mod.rs
Headless Linux sessions write base64-encoded clipboard data through an OSC 52 escape sequence and report success after stdout flushes. Display-enabled sessions continue using the background clipboard worker.

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Copying can fail for headless SSH users whose display variables are set but empty. Treat empty values as headless before merging.

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OSC 52 carries it out of sight
With displays, the worker still runs
Headless paths now reach more screens
Flush the stream, and copying is done

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In `@src/ui/key_handler/mod.rs`:
- Around line 444-445: Update the has_display detection in the key-handler
clipboard selection to require a non-empty DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY value,
treating empty or absent variables as headless so the OSC 52 fallback remains
available.

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