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Rather than fiddle with the GUI program for my Yubikey, I use the ykman CLI program for TOTP authentication, because there’s always a command prompt / terminal open on the portrait monitor:

ykman oath accounts code -s ama
161413

Double-click to select the number in the terminal, then either copy-n-paste or middle-click into the target field of whatever needs convincing I am truly me, myself, and I.

I finally got a Round Tuit and piped the output into xclip to put the number into the clipboard:

ykman oath accounts code -s ama | xclip

Which lets me go directly to pasting or middle-clicking.

The command history is big enough that I now type only:

Ctrl-R ama

Which brings up the most recent version of the command, whereupon I whack Enter to execute it. Similar abbreviations extract the commands for dozen-odd companies / banks / institutions / whatever I deal with.

When I need a hint:

ykman oath accounts list

Should’a done that long ago.

For reference, a treatise on Yubikey config and usage.

Bonus! A cat:

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