Directly paste clipboard image into gmail message

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I would like to be able to directly paste my clipboard image into a Gmail message. I could then just do alt-print screen, go to Gmail compose and press ctrl-v to embed a screenshot, for instance. I'm not talking about embedding a image from disk into my email; that's easily done. I want to skip the step where I have to save it to disk first.

Eudora/Thunderbird support this. There's a program that does this, it's at picturepaste.com, but it's paid (and and the website uses Javascript for no obvious reasons). You can see the demo movie there if it's not clear what I would like.

I would like to find a free alternative, or make one myself, but I have no clue how picturepaste works.

edit: I would like to have the picture inlined, instead of a hyperlink.

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There is a Gmail lab "Inserting Images". Once you have it enabled, there's a new button to insert images:

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It's not 100% what you want (still not able to paste from clipboard), but you can at least put the images inline in your mail message. You can also use an url as the source of the image.

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Okay guys, This is what I did.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;

namespace ClipSave
{
    class Program
    {
        [STAThread] public static void Main()
        {
            if (Clipboard.GetDataObject() != null)
            {
                IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();

                if (data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap))
                {
                    Image image = (Image)data.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap, true);
                    string file = System.Windows.Forms.Application.CommonAppDataPath + "\\ClipSaveImage.png";
                    image.Save(file, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
                    Clipboard.SetText(file);

                }
                else
                    MessageBox.Show("Copy valid image first");
            }
            else
                MessageBox.Show("Copy image first");
        }
    }
}

Compiled it to an EXE, added a start-up menu shortcut to it with a hotkey Ctrl+Shift+C. It then copies the current image in clipboard to a file and puts path to the file into the clipboard.

Ubuntu – How to copy image to clipboard, to paste to another application

First, install python, and pygtk

sudo apt-get install python pygtk

Now save the following script somewhere as imgclip.py (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3571855/pasting-image-to-clipboard-in-python-in-linux)

#! /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]);

To use it:

python /path/to/imgclip.py filename.png

Note: tested pasting in gimp and xournal. Note: this is for gnome desktop (hence gtk). I bet there's something similar for kde

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