GPaste is a clipboard management system with a fully DBus-based daemon, a CLI client and a gtk+ tray icon.
A simple CLI interface is provided: gpaste-client, with a subcommand: gpaste-client ui which makes the graphical tool pop up.
GPaste is free and open source software.
A default daemon named gpaste-daemon is provided, with seven keybindings:
- Show history.
- Pop the item from the history.
- Sync primary selection with clipboard.
- Sync clipboard with primary selection.
- Mark the active item as being a password.
- Upload the active item to a pastebin service (using wgetpaste).
- Launch the graphical tool.
Features include:
- GTK+3 GUI provides a clean interface.
- Easily integrates with Gnome Shell, the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Searchable clipboard history.
- Supports saving images to clipboard.
- History settings for buffer size and memory usage.
Website: github.com/Keruspe/GPaste
Support:
Developer: Marc-Antoine Perennou
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
GPaste is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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