# 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](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. Archlinux users can find a PKGBUILD [here](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clipman/). ## 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.) ## Versions This projects follows SemVer conventions. ## License GPL v3.0 2019- (C) yory8