cclip is a set of two tools:
- cclipd daemon runs in the background, monitors wayland clipboard for changes and writes clipboard contents to a database.
- cclip is a CLI tools for interacting with the database created by cclip
cclip was heavily inspired by cliphist and attempts to fix some issues present in cliphist.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Select MIME types you wish to accept.
- Specify minimum entry size in bytes.
- Duplicate entries won’t be saved twice.
- Easily integrated into scripts.
- Preserves clipboard content byte-to-byte (doesn’t insert extra newlines, strip whitespace, etc).
- Supports text, images, and any other MIME type, really.
- Lets you add custom tags to clipboard entries.
- Ignores sensitive data like passwords.
Website: github.com/heather7283/cclip
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Developer: GNU General Public License v3.0
License: heather7283
cclip is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| CLI Clipboard Managers | |
|---|---|
| clipmenu | Simple clipboard manager using dmenu (or rofi) and xsel |
| cliphist | Clipboard history manager for Wayland |
| Clipcat | Uses a client-server architecture |
| Greenclip | Recycle your clipboard selections |
| Ringboard | Clipboard manager built around a client-server architecture |
| Clipvault | Clipboard history manager for Wayland |
| Clipster | Simple clipboard manager which aims to be lightweight |
| nocb | Nearly optimal clipboard manager |
| clipsim | Simple and fast X clipboard manager |
| cclip | Cipboard manager for Wayland |
| Clapboard | Clipboard manager for Wayland written in Rust |
| Qlipmon | Clipboard history saver with native rofi plugin and DBUS interface |
| clipbox | Clipboard manager for Wayland |
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