Clipster is a simple clipboard manager.
It aims to be lightweight, have a small set of non-core dependencies (Gtk+), and is designed to interact well with tiling and keyboard-based window managers. It uses selection events, rather than polling, and offers both command-line and GUI interaction with the clipboard.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Event driven, rather than polling. More efficient, helps with power management.
- Control over when it write to disk, for similar reasons.
- Command-line options/config for everything.
- No global keybindings.
- Sensible handling of unusual clipboard events. Some apps (Chrome, Emacs) trigger a clipboard ‘update event’ for every character you select, rather than just one event when you stop selecting.
- Preserves the last item in clipboard after an application closes. (Many apps clear the clipboard on exit).
- Minimal dependencies, no complicated build/install requirements.
- utf-8 support
- Proper handling of embedded newlines and control codes.
- Smart matching of urls, emails, regexes. (extract_*).
- Option to synchronise the SELECTION and CLIPBOARD clipboards.
- Option to track one or both clipboards.
- Option to ignore clipboard updates from certain applications.
- Option to only monitor clipboard updates from certain applications.
- Ability to delete items in clipboard history from GUI or command-line.
- Ability to ignore selections based on a list of regex patterns.
- One-off command to ignore next clipboard selection.
Website: docs.xfce.org
Support:
Developer: Matthew Richardson
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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