wg-clipman is a GTK3-based GUI for Senan Kelly’s cliphist.
It provides access to previously copied items, as well as management of the clipboard history from a window opened on gtk-layer-shell. The program is intended for use with sway, Hyprland and other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
This program is a part of the nwg-shell project.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Image and text history item preview.
- Searching clipboard history by a textual phrase.
- Deleting selected history item.
- Clearing clipboard history.
Website: github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-clipman
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Developer: Piotr Miller
License: MIT License

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| Panox | Viisually appealing clipboard manager designed specifically for Wayland |
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