Clipman

A basic clipboard manager for Wayland, with support for persisting copy buffers after an application exits.

Installing

Requirements:

• a windows manager that uses wlr-data-control, like Sway and other wlroots-based WMs.
• wl-clipboard >= 2.0
• dmenu, bemenu, rofi or wofi

Install go, add $GOPATH/bin to your path, then run go get github.com/yory8/clipman OR run go install inside this folder.

Archlinux users can find a PKGBUILD here.

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. You can assign it to a keybinding: bindsym $mod+h exec clipman pick. For primary clipboard support, clipman pick --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json.

To remove items from history, clipman clear 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. The trade-off is that we always immediately lose rich content: for example, if you copy some bold text in LibreOffice, when you paste it right after it will be unformatted text; or, if you copy a bookmark in Firefox, you won't be able to paste it in another bookmark folder. To disable this behaviour, you must give up persistency-after-exit by passing the -P option to clipman store. (Items manually picked from history will still be just plain text.)

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