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Clipman
A basic clipboard manager for Wayland, with support for persisting copy buffers after an application exits.
Installing
From source
Requirements:
- a windows manager that uses
wlr-data-control, like Sway and other wlroots-based WMs. - wl-clipboard >= 2.0
- a selector: wofi, bemenu, dmenu or rofi are specially supported, but you can use what you want
- notify-send (optional, for desktop notifications)
Install go, add $GOPATH/bin to your path, then run go get github.com/yory8/clipman OR run go install inside this folder.
Distros
- Archlinux: unofficial PKGBUILD here.
- Debian: official package in their repos.
Usage
Run the binary in your Sway session by adding exec wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store (or exec wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store 1>> PATH/TO/LOGFILE 2>&1 & to log errors) at the beginning of your config.
For primary clipboard support, also add exec wl-paste -p -t text --watch clipman store --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json.
To query the history and select items, run the binary as clipman pick -t wofi. You can assign it to a keybinding: bindsym $mod+h exec clipman pick -t wofi.
For primary clipboard support, clipman pick -t wofi --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json.
You can pass additional arguments to the selector like this: clipman pick --tool wofi -T'--prompt=my-prompt -i' (both --prompt and -i are flags of wofi).
You can use a custom selector like this: clipman pick --print0 --tool=CUSTOM --tool-args="fzf --prompt 'pick > ' --bind 'tab:up' --cycle --read0".
To remove items from history, clipman clear -t wofi and clipman clear --all.
To serve the last history item at startup, add exec clipman restore to your Sway config.
For more options: clipman -h.
Known Issues
Loss of rich text
- All items stored in history are treated as plain text.
- By default, we continue serving the last copied item even after its owner has exited. This means that, unless you run with the
--no-persistoption, you'll always immediately lose rich content: for example, if you copy formatted text inside Libre Office you'll lose all formatting on paste; or, if you copy a bookmark in Firefox, you won't be able to paste it in another bookmark folder.
Versions
This projects follows SemVer conventions.
License
GPL v3.0
2019- (C) yory8 yory8@users.noreply.github.com
Documentation
Source Files