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

These distros ship with clipman binaries 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 -P --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json" (note that both the -p in wl-paste and the -P in clipman are mandatory in this case).

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 yory8@users.noreply.github.com