nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage. It’s an X11 clipboard manager with compression and fts.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Hash-based storage – blake3 content addressing, instant deduplication.
- Compression – automatic zstd compression for text >4KB.
- Images – full support with dimensions (png/jpeg/gif/bmp/webp).
- Performance – sqlite with WAL, LRU cache, 100MB entry support.
- Security – unix socket with uid verification, memory zeroization.
- rofi integration – 80-char entries with hash-based retrieval.
Website: Fails AI policy
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Developer: hitchhooker
License: MIT License
nocb is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| clipbox | Clipboard manager for Wayland |
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