# 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](https://golang.org/doc/install), add `$GOPATH/bin` to your path, then run `go get github.com/yory8/clipman` OR run `go install` inside this folder. ### Distros These distros ship with clipman binaries in their repos: [![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/clipman.svg)](https://repology.org/project/clipman/versions) ## 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. If you want primary clipboard support, add the `-p` flag to the `wl-paste` command; note that primary and secondary clipboard will be mixed together. 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`. 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-persist` option, 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. ### Vim's Visual Block mode breaks if persistence is enabled Run `clipman store` with the `--no-persist` option if you are affected. Unfortunately, it seems that there is no way to make them play well together. ## Versions This projects follows SemVer conventions. ## License GPL v3.0 2019- (C) yory8