Cliphist
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Cliphist is an efficient Linux-based Wayland clipboard manager supporting both text and images, conserving content byte-for-byte. It archives clipboard changes to a history file, integrates with tools like dmenu or rofi for recall, and remains lightweight, open-source, and ad-free.
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- K0RR added Cliphist as alternative to kaprica and nwg-clipman
- POX added Cliphist as alternative to Pop Clipboard
- POX added Cliphist as alternative to ClipPocket
- Dalieba added Cliphist as alternative to Edit Clipboard Contents
- K0RR added Cliphist as alternative to Clipvault and clipse clipboard manager
- K0RR added Cliphist as alternative to Clipman for Wayland
- K0RR liked Cliphist
- POX added Cliphist as alternative to Quip Clipboard
- POX added Cliphist as alternative to Snippet – Visual clipboard
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Senan KellyLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Cliphist?
Clipboard history “manager” for Wayland.
- write clipboard changes to a history file
- recall history with dmenu / rofi / wofi (or whatever other picker you like)
- both text and images are supported
- clipboard is preserved byte-for-byte
- leading / trailing whitespace / no whitespace or newlines are preserved
- won’t break fancy editor selections like vim wordwise, linewise, block mode
- no concept of a picker, only pipes
It requires: go, wl-clipboard, xdg-utils (for image mime inferance).
Comments and Reviews
Cliphist is a simple tool with no GUI. Therefore, it is highly customizable and can be used in a variety of environments and applications. To use Cliphist in the GUI, settings and scripts are required according to each environment. In addition to Cliphist, you will need dmenu, rofi, or wofi. The history of the clip board will not be displayed until you read the README and set these settings appropriately. Images cannot be handled with dmenu. wofi or rofi can handle images.