Recycle your clipboard selections with Greenclip and don’t waste your time anymore to reselect things over and over.
It keeps track of your history of selections to quickly switch between them.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Integrated with rofi.
- Permanently set some selections to added at the end (set static_history = [] in the config file).
- Merge X Primary selection with clipboard selection (set use_primary_selection_as_input = true in the config file).
- Blacklist some applications.
- Copy small images (you can disable it in the config).
Website: github.com/erebe/greenclip
Support:
Developer: Erèbe – Romain Gerard
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
Greenclip is written in Haskell. Learn Haskell 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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