This is an altered version of @Martin Thoma's answer for GTK3. I found that the original solution resulted in the process never ending and my terminal hung when I called the script. Changing the script to the following resolved the issue for me.
#!/usr/bin/python3
from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk
import sys
from time import sleep
class Hello(Gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super(Hello, self).__init__()
clipboardText = sys.argv[1]
clipboard = Gtk.Clipboard.get(Gdk.SELECTION_CLIPBOARD)
clipboard.set_text(clipboardText, -1)
clipboard.store()
def main():
Hello()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
You will probably want to change what clipboardText gets assigned to, in this script it is assigned to the parameter that the script is called with.
On a fresh ubuntu 16.04 installation, I found that I had to install the python-gobject package for it to work without a module import error.