Homie – terminal-based clipboard manager

Homie is a terminal-based clipboard manager written in Go.

It runs as a daemon to track clipboard activity, stores copied items locally, and provides a searchable terminal history window for retrieving and reusing previous clipboard entries.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Runs as a daemon process to track clipboard changes.
• Stores copied items in a local SQLite3 database.
• Provides a clipboard history window for browsing previous entries.
• Includes integrated fuzzy search for locating clipboard records.
• Supports multi-select, allowing selected items to be combined into a single clipboard buffer.
• Can paste selected history items directly in the terminal.
• Includes commands for starting, stopping, viewing, and clearing clipboard history.
• Provides shell configuration generation for Bash startup integration.
• Offers Bash completion support for Homie commands.
• Includes tmux integration using popup support in tmux 3.2 or later.
• Supports configurable cleanup behaviour for pruning older clipboard records.

Website: github.com/kaliv0/homie
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Developer: kaliv0
License: MIT License

Homie is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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