Clipboard Manager is a lightweight terminal-based clipboard manager for Linux. It’s designed for tiling window manager setups such as Hyprland, but also supports Wayland and X11 environments.
The application keeps a local clipboard history, provides a ratatui-powered interface for selecting previous entries, and includes helpful detection features for common content types and sensitive data.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Maintains clipboard history for text and images.
- Keeps history persistent across reboots.
- Moves re-copied content to the top of the history.
- Supports pinning so important entries are not evicted.
- Automatically categorises entries as links, email addresses, colours, paths, phone numbers, code, or plain text.
- Detects sensitive content such as API keys, tokens, private keys, JWTs, and credit card numbers.
- Masks detected secrets by default and can automatically expire them after five minutes.
- Includes an emoji and emoticon picker with category browsing and search.
- Provides a background daemon and terminal user interface.
- Supports Wayland via wl-clipboard and also works with X11.
- Includes Hyprland auto-detection and floating window rule support.
Website: github.com/Grenish/clipboard-manager
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Developer: Grenish
License: MIT License
Clipboard Manager is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| TUI Clipboard Managers | |
|---|---|
| Clippy | Lightweight terminal-based clipboard history manager |
| clipse | TUI-based clipboard manager application written in Go |
| Stash | Wayland clipboard manager written in Rust |
| Clipboard Manager | Designed for tiling window managers |
| Homie | Clipboard manager written in Go |
| ClipTUI | Runs as a background daemon, recording clipboard entries locally |
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