ClipIt is a lightweight fully featured GTK+ clipboard manager.
It was forked from Parcellite, adding additional features and bugfixes to the project.
ClipIt features a clipboard CLI. Unrecognized options and the contents of your standard input get copied to the clipboard.
Key Features
- Automatically paste selected item.
- Save history of your last copied items.
- Search through the history.
- Global hotkeys for most used functions.
- Execute actions with clipboard items.
- Exclude specific items from history.
- Declare static items.
- Option to run ClipIt as a daemon. Use this mode if you just want ClipIt to keep your clipboard and primary contents safe.
- ClipIt’s actions perform commands using the contents of your clipboard.
- Hotkeys:
- History.
- Actions.
- Menu.
- Manage.
Website: github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt
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Developer: Cristian Henzel
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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