How can I do the same thing on Mac OS X I heard that I could use pbpaste, but none of the following command worked for me. xclip -selection clipboard -o -t text/html. However using the command 'java -jar myApp.jar &' didn't work as a workaround for me. I can get the contents of the clipboard in the format of HTML on linux by using xclip. I found similar problem posted here: Java thread goes to sleep when not in focus on OSX If copy and paste aren’t working on Mac, Activity Monitor may help you: Go to Applications and choose Utilities. I look at the resulting list and it contains all my copy.

But when I use the TextMate editor I go into the Edit->Paste entry and it gives me a Show History entry.

How can I do the same thing on Mac OS X I heard that I could use pbpaste, but none of the following command worked for me. All the questions I find about clipboard history in StackExchange suggest that you have to install a third party app to acquire this feature.

Public class ClipboardListener extends Thread implements ClipboardOwner ĬlipboardListener listener = new ClipboardListener() I can get the contents of the clipboard in the format of HTML on linux by using xclip. The problem: bellow code works perfectly fine on Windows 7 and openSUSE Linux machines, however when I try running the same code on Mac OS X the program fails to print the new content of the clipboard until focus is given to the application. What I'm trying to do is to listen to the system clipboard and print the content of the clipboard each time new information is put into it. I'm having troubles getting data from the system clipboard on Mac OS X.

How to access clipboard on mac os x