Panox is a modern, visually appealing clipboard manager designed specifically for Wayland compositors.
Built with GTK4 and Libadwaita, Panox provides a seamless clipboard experience with support for both text and images.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Modern UI: Clean, card-based interface with smooth slide-in animations.
- Image Support: Full support for copying and pasting images from file managers and screenshot tools.
- Dual Storage System:
- Favorites: Permanently stored on disk (~/.local/share/panox/).
- Daily Items: Stored in RAM (/tmp/) – automatically cleared on system restart.
- Tab Organization: Three tabs for easy navigation – All, Favorites, and Daily.
- Real-time Updates: UI automatically refreshes when new clipboard content is detected.
- Customizable Appearance:
- Multiple themes (System, Dark, Light).
- Adjustable opacity.
- Configurable corner radius.
- Variable card width.
- Position options (Top, Bottom, Left, Right).
- Internationalization: Full support for English and Turkish.
- Wayland Native: Built specifically for wlroots-based compositors (Sway, Hyprland, etc.)
- Layer Shell Support: Proper overlay behavior using gtk4-layer-shell
Website: github.com/cosarberk/panox
Support:
Developer: Berk COŞAR
License: MIT License

Panox is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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